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Build the Fish Gill Look That Makes Your Abs Pop With One Simple Exercise originally appeared on Men's Fitness. If you want to make your serratus anterior muscle look like toned fish gills, there's ...

As you sit at your desk and chew your morning muffin, consider the complicated interlocking structure of your jaw. How did you manage to evolve such a thing? What you’re eating through is essentially ...

When you and I take a deep breath, we pull air into our lungs. That’s because humans are mammals. But fish aren’t mammals. They usually don’t breathe air. They usually don’t have lungs. That’s what I ...

All animals need oxygen to survive - even if they spend their lives in water. Humans and terrestrial animals inhale air, which is a mix of many gasses and 20 percent of that is oxygen. The process ...

I think the gills allow fish to breathe because water goes in them. Because they have holes in their gills so it is like a nose. But I don’t know how they stay alive if we can’t with our nose. Well if ...

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The skeletal structure of a fish's gill arches and paired fins are quite similar – enough so that it was once believed the fins evolved from the arches. Although that theory has since been discounted, ...

Fish induce production of a particular antibody in their gills in response to pathogen exposure, researchers report at the conclusion of work that could lead to improved fish vaccines for aquaculture.