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You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills; somehow water's involved.
It fits 1,100 people, it's jammed to the gills, and up on the stage, waiting to shake your hand, waiting to hand you your Ig Nobel prize, are a bunch of Nobel prize winners.
That's similar to the much more rapid changes faced by frogs today as they transition from tadpoles with gills to adults with lungs.
An inhalation that could move water over gills followed by a rapid closure of the glottis preventing water from entering the lungs.
It gets in the gills of fish.
I don't know what this kind of stuff will do in their gills.
And the gills are quite sensitive.
Think about it with the Corexit hitting the membranes, and it will clog up the gills, and then these animals are going to be getting something like what you call chemical pneumonia, trying to aspirate the compounds.
We put water over its gills, give it oxygen.
Giada Colagrande is either paralyzed from the mouth up or Botoxed to the gills, and nary an expression touches her face.
A crazed computer genius named Goad (Laura San Giacomo) sets a spaceship named the Agamemnon, loaded to the gills with an highly unstable substance, on a collision course with the Earth!
Stuffed to the gills with great gags and eye-popping visuals, 'Page Miss Glory' is a very early Warner Bros. masterpiece.
As a tourist draw, seen at close quarters in its natural habitat, a manta ray can be worth thousands of dollars; dead on a slab at the quayside, its flesh and gills fetch a fraction of that.
Likewise, commercial fishing frequently depends on gill nets – walls of fine netting in which fish become snared, often by the gills.
They may suffocate in the net, because, with their gills constricted, they cannot breathe.
They have been quite aptly defined as: "cold-blooded vertebrates with a double circulatory system, breathing through gills, and designed to live in water."
Primo, the acanthopterygians, whose upper jaw is fully formed and free-moving, and whose gills take the shape of a comb.
"Quinto," Conseil said, "the lophobranchians, which have fully formed, free-moving jaws but whose gills consist of little tufts arranged in pairs along their gill arches.
"Secundo, the selacians, with gills resembling those of the cyclostomes but whose lower jaw is free-moving.
Anyone consulting Conseil would soon learn from the gallant lad that the branch Mollusca is divided into five classes; that the first class features the Cephalopoda (whose members are sometimes naked, sometimes covered with a shell), which consists of two families, the Dibranchiata and the Tetrabranchiata, which are distinguished by their number of gills; that the family Dibranchiata includes three genera, the argonaut, the squid, and the cuttlefish, and that the family Tetrabranchiata contains only one genus, the nautilus.
Conseil looked at it with purely scientific fascination, and I'm sure he placed it, not without good reason, in the class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, family Selacia, genus Squalus.
The Canadian and I sat him up; we massaged his contracted arms, and when he regained his five senses, that eternal classifier mumbled in a broken voice:"Class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, suborder Selacia, family Rajiiforma, genus electric ray.""Yes, my friend," I answered, "it was an electric ray that put you in this deplorable state."
Truly, if that gallant lad had owned gills instead of lungs, I think he would have made an outstanding fish!"Well, sir?"Ned Land went on, seeing that I hadn't replied.
O that I could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines on a twig!