fish physiology
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Whale Sharks Keep Crashing Into Ships
The oceans’ gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.
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Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North America, where a bombardment of blue dots made it look like the coastline was being assaulted by white sharks.
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Mammals Can Breathe Through Their Intestines, Unsettling Experiment Finds
When pressed for oxygen, some fish and sea cucumbers will use their lower intestines to get a little extra out of their environment. Now, a team of Japanese researchers say that mammals are also capable of respirating through their rectal cavity, at least in a lab setting.