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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 ...

If you want to make your serratus anterior muscle look like toned fish gills, there's one exercise you need to be doing: the pushup plus, as fitness researcher Max Coleman recently shared. Coleman is ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil of ...

The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. Embryonic and fossil ...

Fish gills are shaped like a heart. Not moving water back and forth, as we do with the air we breathe, saves fish considerable energy. The average fish uses muscles to pump water into its mouth and ...

In trout, researchers have discovered that a particular type of primitive antibody is essential for fighting microbes that cause disease while preserving others that make up a healthy microbiome.

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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, ...