Sentence examples for fish breathe from inspiring English sources

"We'll be able to track how fish breathe or don't breathe," said Dr. Porfiri, nodding toward the noxious water with a giggle.

I doubt that Mr. Horan's stories on how fish breathe will be on those exams, but what's important is that Ryan actually likes school.

Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-million-year-old Ancestor by Neil Shubin (Penguin) An expert in evolutionary history, Shubin "shows that if we want to know why we hiccup, the answer is in the way fish breathe; and explains why it is that fish teeth are surprisingly similar to human breasts".

Some fishes breathe in part through the skin, by the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the surrounding water and numerous small blood vessels near the skin surface.

"Ah, so" ("I see"), Hirohito responds opaquely (but what does he see?), his mouth fluttering open and closed, open and closed, as if he were a fish breathing underwater.

Zebrafish reared under hyperoxic conditions exhibited significantly higher breathing frequencies at rest (283 ± 27 min−1 versus 212 ± 16 min−1 in control fish); breathing frequency was unaffected in adult fish subjected to hyperoxia for 7 days.

Mechanisms to decrease the masking potential of fish breathing have been described.

The pirarucu's air bladder allows the fish to breathe air.

The findings contradict a previously held theory that the oxygen content at the deepest part of the lake, thought to be about 35 to 50 feet down, was too low for a fish to breathe in, Dr. Martin said.

But it was only a matter of time before Anthony Martin, a fossil trace expert, deciphered the fossil's code, and used it to tell the story of a fish that lived 50 million years ago in Wyoming's Fossil Lake and swam at depths previously thought to be too deep for a fish to breathe in.

With regard to the canal's waters, Ms. Durham said that fish, which breathe water through their gills, are much more quickly affected by water quality than dolphins, which do not ingest water directly (they get their water from the food they eat).