Posted on 08/27/2014 3:03:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
Hey! William Shatner went there! :-D
To #19: Which one is Helen Thomas and which one is Nancy Pelosi? So hard to tell the difference.
“These fish have functional lungs and can breathe air,” explains Standen. Dinosaur eels also have gills, but they breathe at the surface regularly to increase their oxygen supply. They also occasionally use their fins to walk on land.
So they found a fish that has already adapted to surviving out of water, and just forced it to do that for a longer period of time than it would prefer. It would be a lot more impressive if they could take a fully aquatic fish and repeat their experiment.
Oh, I wasn't ripping on the school. It was the gill - fish thing... Never mind.
Oh, I wasn't ripping on the school. It was the gill - fish thing... Never mind.
OK. Now I get it. :)
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