6 results for “breathing”

1. Animals

   Reptiles and Amphibians

   breathing creatures with tails, then transform, growing legs and lungs, losing their tails and gills, and emerging

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2. Animals

   Birds

   breath and the out-breath, extracting far more oxygen than a mammal can, which is how geese

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3. Animals

   Whales and Dolphins

   breathe air, through blowholes on the top of the head, and must surface to do so; a whale

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4. Animals

   Mammals

   breathe air with lungs. These traits define the mammals, a group of about 6,500 species

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5. Animals

   The Octopus

   breathes water through gills inside its body and can also jet that water out to swim

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6. Animals

   Insects

   breathe without lungs. Air enters through small holes along the sides of the body and travels

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