Friday, 2 January 2015

How do fish breathe?

How do fish breathe?


Fish are vertebrates (animals with backbones) that live in the sea and in fresh water. Like all animals they have to breathe in oxygen. Lungs would simply fill up with water, so instead fish have feathery gills at the back of the head that extract oxygen from water as it flows over them.

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