Ichthyology (FISHES) with Chris Thacker
Ologies with Alie Ward
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How Do Fish Breathe Water?
I love exotic animals and there's some people that don't even know that these animals live with us here on a planet. I like to watch the animals sometimes. Let's back up and can you tell me what a fish is? Okay, a fish is a vertebrate, which means it has a bony skeleton with a backbone. It's a vertebrate that lives in the water. Fish is breathe water. They're part of a clade called Axenopterigii - ray-find fishes. But they have a very frilly, complicated blood enriched gill sort of filament.
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