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Tags: See All Tags amphibian , gill , lung , mammal , oxygen , reptile. Fish facts: There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.
Fish have been on the earth for more than million years. The largest fish is the great whale shark, which can reach 50 feet in length. Wonder What's Next? Try It Out Feeling fishy? Did you get it? Test your knowledge. What are you wondering? Wonder Words oxygen dissolved snorkel lung mammal gill feathery blood vessel amphibian reptile flair Take the Wonder Word Challenge. Join the Discussion. Javy Feb 6, Thank you Wonderopolis, very helpful information!! Very helpful for my project!
Thank you Wonderopolis! Mar 28, Breathing, for humans, is part of the automatic things our body does! JAVY Feb 6, Feb 6, Grayfish Jan 15, Great white sharks don't grow to fifty feet in length, our modern 'Great' white sharks grow to an average of fifteen feet, but some can exceed twenty feet. I think you are referring to the Megalodon, the largest shark to ever live, it grew to an estimated fifty feet in length, it lived during the Early Miocene period, and went extinct 2. Thank god.
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Feb 21, Animals on land breathe air, which is made up of different gasses. Oxygen is one of these gases, and is made by plants hug a plant today and say thanks. All animals need to breathe in oxygen to survive. When the air goes into our lungs, oxygen goes into our blood and is delivered all around the body. This makes it pretty easy to breathe air back and forth — a bit like blowing up balloons and letting them deflate. Read more: Curious Kids: have people ever seen a colossal squid? Things are different for fish.
Fishes also need oxygen, but rather than getting it from air, they have to get it from water. But there is less oxygen available in water than air. And to make matters worse for the poor fishes, water is thicker than air, so it takes much more work to move it around. Rather than breathing in and out through the mouth, fish use a one-way system, passing water in one direction over their gills. Water goes in the mouth, across the gills and out through the opercula the bony covering protecting their gills.
But gills and lungs are more similar than you might think.
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