What's This?
Breathing
Almost all life gets energy from oxygen. Check out some of the remarkable ways that animals get the oxygen they need to survive.
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Check out this mystery photo.
Can you guess what it is?
a tadpole
a frog
a salamander
a lizard
Nope. Try again!
Image Credits:
Axolotl, photo by Orizatriz (CC BY 2.0 license); elephant seal, courtesy of U.S. Antarctic Program; Ruppell’s vulture, Rob Schoenmaker (CC BY-SA 2.5 license); Arctic ground squirrel, courtesy of National Park Service; painted turtle, photo by André Karwath (CC BY-SA 2.5 license); bumblebee, courtesy of R.Hansen/USFWS.