This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The morphology of fish gills is closely linked to aerobic capacity and tolerance of environmental stressors such as hypoxia. The importance of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills. | Credit: A. Martin UW ...

Biologists find no link between fish size and gill surface area—study suggests that models underlying some projections of future fisheries yields need to be reconsidered AMHERST, Mass. – A ...

Gravid females of Anodonta cataracta incubate shelled larvae (glochidia) in the water tubes of their outer demibranchs which, in turn, undergo extensive morphological changes in becoming marsupia. In ...

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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 ...

It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear has its evolutionary roots in the gills of ancient fish. This surprising ...