Sentences with phrase «fish breathe air»

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The scientists are claiming the fish walked around on the ground out of water and breathed air.

we've got this fish that could walk and breathe air (never mind that the «lobes» were only a tiny fraction of the size needed for locomotion.

OK, a fish wiggles out of the sea and onto the land, but he can't breathe air.

So until I figure out a way to breathe underwater like a fish, I decided that the best I could do was make sure that the air I breathe is fish scents.

Personally, if I had a wish, I would like to fly like a bird only to dive into the depths of the sea and swim with the fish without restriction in terms of the air that I breathe.

Stommel hypothesizes that people living around the lakes may have breathed in BMAA from the air, eaten fish contaminated with it, or accidentally swallowed it while swimming.

This illustration in a fish with a proven ancient lineage of a highly evolved system controlling variations in heart rate suggests that its evolution was necessarily linked to the advent of air breathing over primitive vertebrate lungs rather than the much later appearance of mammals.

We humans then eat the mercury - laced seafood — wild salmon, tuna, swordfish and other fish — and breathe it in our air.

Coelacanths, the ancient fish once thought to be extinct, have a vestigial lung, suggesting they used to breathe air

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The fish in question were bichir fish that can breathe air and haul themselves over land when they have to, so it's not as far - fetched as it sounds.

Evolutionary biologists reared air - breathing fish on land for eight months and found that the experience encouraged the fish to develop skeletons better adapted for walking.

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Being air - breathing meant they could thrive in the low - oxygen waters of the post-Permian world where fish struggled to survive.

«Lungs started to appear in fish underwater when they evolved air breathing in response to low oxygen levels in water 350 to 400 million years ago,» says study author Peter Madsen, a biologist at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

She received her Ph.D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC - San Diego where she studied the physiology of air breathing fishes.

Mercury toxicity could be from eating too much mercury - laden fish and shellfish, mercury amalgam fillings, simply breathing air containing mercury (from coal burning), vaccines and flu shots and contact lens solution.

We are exposed to toxins through everything from foods sprayed with pesticides and farmed fish to household cleaners and even the air we breathe.

Surprisingly we come into contact with heavy metals in everyday life — through the air we breathe (think vehicle emissions and other environmental pollutants), in the food we eat (non-organic foods that have been treated with pesticides and herbicides), if you have dental fillings made from mercury - containing amalgam, and certain types of large fish (such as king mackerel, swordfish, orange roughy, marlin, tuna steaks, and canned «white» albacore).

Teddy fished a tennis ball out of the water and carried it like a trophy the whole way round, and we stopped lots of times to breathe and relax and enjoy the amazing crisp air.

lol no not real just loving breathing air, and a good fishing hole!

It's a buddy - cop movie in which the cops seem like they'd be better off not being buddies, and a fish - out - of - water story in which Cheadle's unfailingly professional fish never learns how to breathe the air of his hostile new surroundings.

If you want to get out and breathe the fresh air, you're in the perfect spot for hiking, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, rafting or horseback riding.

Instead, breathe in the salty ocean air, wolf down a flying fish sandwich from the Seaside Bar, and soak away the afternoon in an Atlantic tide pool.

Fishing, Swimming, Surfing and Body Boarding popular as is going for a stroll along the Ninety Mile Beach breathing in the crisp, sea air.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In general, animals living and breathing in water like fish, squid, and mussels, have between five and 20 times less CO2 in their blood than terrestrial animals, so CO2 enriched water will affect them in different and potentially more dramatic ways than species that breathe in air.

Burning and refining fossil fuel is polluting the air we breathe the water we drink and the fish we eat, not to mention the oil spills that devastate our coastlines.

We should be able to slog through our local streams, eat pretty much whatever we like, breathe the good clean air, and catch a fish that will not do us or our children damage, regardles of its weight or ours.

If we blindly develop every inch of dirt, where will our children and their children play, fish, hunt, walk on the seashore, and breathe clean air?