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"gills" Definitions
  1. (sometimes singular)
  2. the wattle of birds such as domestic fowl
  3. green around the gills
  4. looking or feeling nauseated

278 Sentences With "gills"

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They have gills, and through their gills they literally release spores into the earth to reproduce.
My guess is that the power dynamics of the society are going to put no gills at the top, because you've got to have more resources for the people with gills.
" Gates quipped, "Hello to all the Gills out there.
Air whirled in through two gills in the plastic windows.
What was it like to have lungs instead of gills?
Austin is full, crammed to gills, stuffed to the gullet.
The Rose Bowl was packed to the gills with 60,000 fans.
Some of it was lodged inside the gills of fossilised fish.
Organisms survive this environment by having efficient gills or minimizing movement.
"Packed to the gills with tools and guitars," Mr. Fraiture recalled.
It didn't take long before I saw the little glowing gills.
Lucinid clams get nourishment from symbiotic bacteria living in their gills.
A wound may be seen as an attempt to form gills.
The jaw splits and the gills splay, like an opening flower.
The pages fan outward delicately, like the gills on a mushroom.
Also take a look at the gills, which should be red.
Or did my lizard gills open up while I wasn't looking?
Then there are merpeople who've drowned in theme parks and grown gills!
Some absorb oxygen through their skin, and skip both lungs and gills.
Some, like mud puppies, keep their gills and never leave the water.
The artificial heat rises in a dark theater packed to the gills.
The larva swims and grabs along to the gills of a salmon.
They have no lungs, no gills — no organs for breathing at all.
The key detail: punch that beast in the eye or the gills.
"Where there's smoke there's fire," the man told him, Mr. Gills said.
Barack Obama's White House was staffed to the gills with Rubin acolytes.
It had ribs and gills and a slick black SUV like a Jeep.
Or more accurately, a meal for the bacteria living within the animal's gills.
The SXSW Guidebook that is packed to the gills with sessions and speakers.
And lodged inside the fossilized paddlefish's gills were more of the glass spherules.
It's also wired to the gills, with all the latest net-connected gizmos.
And though an adult usually has lungs, it may sometimes keep its gills.
Fish were found with bulging eyes, many hemmorhaging around the gills and mouth.
It flushed water over his gills — the equivalent of giving a human oxygen.
On mushrooms, spores grow along the gills on the underside of the caps.
Trilobites At the top, two flesh-toned siphons swish water over massive gills.
They had to be in constant motion to keep breathing through their gills.
"The algae comes in contact with the gills — it has a chemical composition that affects the membranes of the cells in the gills and they are effectively destroyed — so the fish actually dies due to lack of oxygen," he said.
They then grab the fish by the mouth or gills and yank it out.
The side gills right behind the front wheel are a particularly eye-catching feature.
There were window-like gills in these arms, and each one was a room.
The drainage gills squish out water quickly and efficiently, and they're also gaiter-compatible.
They are silvery gray with tiny eyes, extremely large gills and a toothless mouth.
Instead of eating, bacteria in the creature's gills helps it suck energy from sulfur.
The unsafe facilities, the 30 year old books, the stuffed to the gills classrooms.
Toxicology tests by WildAid have also revealed that many of the gills sold at the Qingping market contain dangerous levels of heavy metals and carcinogens, including arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead, toxic substances that accumulate as the mantas filter plankton through their gills.
Imports of partially processed salmon without heads, gills and entrails were allowed under the ban.
Hagfish goo is a thick, sticky mucus that clogs the gills of a hungry predator.
Some sea creatures — such as fish and sharks — are impacted by toxins through their gills.
For whole fish, the skin should be shiny with good colouration with bright red gills.
As adults, they keep the external gills that most salamanders have only as aquatic larvae.
The jury deliberated for just a couple of hours before finding Mr. Gills not guilty.
A fresh fish will have red or pink gills, and the scales will be shiny.
The first two types of experiment showed unequivocally that sea spiders' legs also work as gills.
It was time to breed F12, who now hung by her gills, dead, on a hook.
It used gills to breath beneath the water and was likely more than three feet long.
And a closer look at the animals' gills and blood confirmed that they were retaining urea.
The fact is, we are not fish and our skin, nails, and hair are not gills.
He first attempted to get the shark off of White by biting into the shark's gills.
The tagging process takes about 10 minutes, during which the shark's gills are flushed with water.
It damages gills and can lead to suffocation, killing up to 90 percent of a population.
Ash and silt flowing into the sea can choke fish's gills and smother seagrasses and seaweed.
Mr. Gills is 5 feet 6 and weighs about 120 pounds, he and his lawyers said.
Fish breathe through gills, organs that extract dissolved oxygen from the water and excrete carbon dioxide.
The exhibition is still packed to the gills, but for the most part not gratuitously so.
Doug Jones's costume had a radio hub that allowed Shane Mahan to control the costume's animatronic gills.
Resilience is great, but if you don't grow gills in time for the flood, then tough luck.
The plastic was wrapped around her gills and was cutting through her skin and into her muscles.
Though, yes, the place was packed to the gills with onlookers, the VIP rooms were curiously empty.
The former is prized by the Italians, distinguished by its white gills and hamburger patty-like top.
He didn't have toes or noses, only gills and fins, so perhaps it meant nothing to him.
Known for their size and bushy gills, sirens are a fixture in Southeastern swamps and watery ditches.
"We're really comfortable in this performance," said Romashina, adding that they are often teased about having gills.
Over all, the aluminum body panels form classic organic Porsche design, without superfluous fins, gills and wings.
Once again a handset manufacturer has developed a whizz-bang device rammed to the gills with innovation.
The mesh "gills" are covered by flaps and open up as the swimmer moves through the water.
The animal may rely on the bacteria in its gills to feed it, as other shipworms do.
At a certain stage, tadpoles have both gills and lungs, which leads to some interesting breathing gymnastics.
Kanye premiered his music video for his song, "Famous" and the venue was packed to the gills.
Skates are "cartilaginous fish," along with sharks and rays, which means their gills are protected by skin flaps.
"Obviously the shark panicked, tried to escape, and it looks like some damage to the gills," she said.
Shark attacks can be countered by pounding them on the nose and scratching at their eyes and gills.
The record is stuffed to the gills with a particular strain of wonky, interrupted but completely characterful house.
I think [Lesnar is] juiced to the gills—and I still think I'm going to knock him out.
Identifying one is fairly easy: Just look for the deep blue-black spot on their gills' upper edge.
The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope.
The Gills just laugh in their gentle, accepting manner because they are adept at none of those things.
Alternatively, fins and gills might be completely unrelated, and just happen to use a couple of the same genes.
Being a mix by DJ Harvey, it's stuffed to the gills with tracks that immediately became incredibly sought after.
These vertical nets are designed to catch fish by their gills, but sometimes they inadvertently capture and kill vaquitas.
It's usually packed to the gills, especially on Friday nights, when they host turtle racing—yes, literal turtles, racing.
Their unique shape has extra room at the knees and elbows for wriggling around and gills for temperature regulation.
Maybe you have a closet full of nothing but totes, or maybe just a cabinet stuffed to the gills.
Obamacare will be the administration's first high-profile test, and it's already proving to be corrupt to the gills.
If you are attacked by a shark, pound it on the nose and scratch at its eyes and gills.
As a result, airports around the country are going to be packed to the gills — even more than usual.
One of them held up a carp by its gills, and smiled, as visitors snapped photos with their phones.
Mr. Gills is now living in his mother's home in Binghamton, speaking to his daughter by phone every day.
It's a biomimicry approach that, this time, was inspired by the gills fish use to extract oxygen from water.
The 61-year-old Scarsdale, New York, neurologist instinctively punched the shark in the gills to fend him off.
But a rapid decline in the world's manta populations means that the gills may soon be going off the market.
But shoppers have closets that are packed to the gills, thanks to fast fashion and the speedy pace of trend.
Though it's smaller than your average credit card, the CASA Hub PDC601 is practically packed to the gills with ports.
For instance, the excessive gills or "ribs" found on the Motorrad Next 100 are back but in more moderate amounts.
It's also said to be rich in antioxidents, high in iron, and stuffed to the gills with glutamic acid—a.k.a.
I'd destroyed it during travel, mostly by overstuffing it to the gills and breaking its back with too much stuff.
Stuffed to the gills with seemingly every single candy ever made, it's been serving the neighborhood's sugar needs since 1937.
Nonetheless, the power of the DNA evidence had some jurors initially persuaded that Mr. Gills was guilty, Ms. Benjamin said.
It developed supersize gills and lost its scales, which enabled it to absorb the water's plentiful oxygen through its skin.
If Canada is up to its gills in debt, that means they can no longer expand in a spectacularly profitable market.
With its own form of grinding, too, as you couldn't just crash into insult sword fighting while green around the gills.
The algae, which has spread rapidly around the coast of northern Norway, sticks to the gills of the fish, suffocating them.
Sea spiders don't have gills, and instead take in oxygen passively from the surrounding water via diffusion through their porous exoskeletons.
Marine creatures can flush it directly into the sea (fish do so through their gills), since it is soluble in water.
In fact, the goo clogs the gills of the predator, which then releases the hagfish to save its own dear life.
Trips to theme parks, hence why Six Flags, Cedar Fair, Disney and Comcast's Universal theme parks are jammed to the gills.
"In the unlikely event they don't release," you should "fight back" and strike the shark's gills, eyes and nose, he advised.
KENNEDY: Well, if a shark showed up on this show, it would be gasping for air, because it&aposs got gills.
The device uses "artificial gills", a filter with holes smaller than water molecules but large enough for oxygen to pass through.
Tesla's Fremon factory is "crazy packed" and "jammed to the gills," so the Model Y would need to be built elsewhere.
Forget the era when the category would be stuffed to the gills with mediocre computer-animated films from big-name studios.
Workers filled three giant freighters to the gills with steel, and a fourth ferried the membrane that serves as the roof.
But most striking are their gills: luxurious, ruddy filaments that frame their heads like manes and undulate gently in the water.
We took five, cutting their gills to bleed them out, then put them on ice and started our long trip home.
When red snapper, a local delicacy, is on the menu, the fish is fried from gills to tail and served whole.
Like a friendly shark that needs to keep oxygen-rich water flowing over its gills, Ms. Ray survives on constant motion.
Fifty percent of the fossilized fish were found with tektites in their gills, as if the fish had inhaled the material.
If it's not possible to flee, claw at the shark's eyes or gills in hopes of stopping it, the report said.
"If you've got cold air, that'll freeze their gills up very quickly," Greg Skomal, a marine scientist, told the New York Times.
Although Saccorhytus lacked an anus, eight cone-like structures around the body appear to be primitive gills that could remove excess water.
Fortunately for the worms, scientists used electron microscopes to discover microbes that could do just that, living in the giant shipworms' gills.
He sucked water in through his muscular mantle and over his vascularized gills, his three hearts pumping like mad in the silence.
The elongated stress of that sucking flow increases the goo's viscosity, the better to suffocate said predators by clogging of the gills.
Or maybe it's time to give Gegenbaur his due and accept that fins (and, ultimately, our own limbs) did evolve from gills.
In the video, a shark enters the cage, thrashes around wildly, and eventually flops through the opened top, bleeding from the gills.
"What makes Triton work with the artificial gills is liquid oxygen," Saeed Khademi, co-founder & CEO of Triton, told CNBC via email.
There are places that are more vulnerable, like the eyes and gills, and your chances depend on the size of the shark.
Mr. Miranda poked a tweezer through the big fish's gills, pressed down the smaller fish's lodged dorsal fin and extracted the fish.
Mr. Gills, now 36, was arrested in August 2015, accused of robbing a Dunkin' Donuts about three months earlier in Jamaica, Queens.
His comparison of César Pelli's towers in Seville and Santiago to phallic symbols may alone make some readers green around the gills.
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I am stuffed to the gills when I finish this scrumptious feast, but I feel energetic and ready to face the day!
He cuts behind the gills, turns the blade flat and draws it along, feeling it bump over the bones of the spine.
The Li Sheng Ji Fins, Fish Maw and Seafood Shop in Guangzhou also sells manta ray gills on the e-commerce site Taobao.
Thousands more were then bred as scientists across Europe marveled at their strange appearance and ability to breathe with both lungs and gills.
When the mantle expands while the squid is swimming through the water, it allows the cephalopod to breathe, pumping water over its gills.
"I urge people not to cook whole fish because the parasites can hide in the head and gills," explained that same fish purveyor.
You see many corporates, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), are loaded up to the gills in debt at unprecedented levels.
Stuffed to the gills with dubplates and exclusives, it'll leave you furiously trying to find every gem he smashes through—to no avail.
Another man then lifts the shark slightly above the water's surface and directly fires two shots from a handgun into the animal's gills.
While some stories claim that the babies simply drowned, others posit that they adapted, grew gills, and have sworn revenge on the living.
We want all of them to stop ... our country is packed to the gills," he continued, as his fans chanted, "Build the wall!
In order to do that, the K. polythalamia needs to have sulfur oxidizing chemoautotrophic (obtaining energy from inorganic chemicals) bacteria in its gills.
For a little variety, check out "Fish Bowl IV," in which the Los Angeles Clams take on the Buffalo Gills, at 4 p.m.
It's still a spendy camera, but the a7R III is packed to the gills with pro-grade features, like a 42-megapixel sensor.
If a fish like cod grows 100 precent larger, its gills might only grow by 80 percent or less, according to the study.
The surface area of the gills, where oxygen is gathered, does not grow at the same rate as the rest of the body.
The scene was like something out of a movie — packed to the gills and champagne bottles popping, as if it was everyone's birthday.
Shipworms are considered a delicacy throughout the Philippines, and the special bacteria in their gills could be adapted into antibiotics and other treatments.
Wouldn't you be curious about the genitalia that convinced Sally Hawkins to give up human life and dive into the ocean and grow gills?
To catch the catfish, a noodler must dive down, blindly reaching inside holes on the lake floor to grab the fish by the gills.
And it all comes down to gills, says William Cheung, study co-author and associate professor at UBC's Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries.
Basically, the legs function like gills, absorbing oxygen from the water, and the gut works like a heart, distributing oxygen to where it's needed.
But because sharks range so far and wide, humans don't have gills, and sharks are sharks, a large tagging effort operation is pretty difficult.
There is at least one English metaphor that suits the colour-coding of China's markets: they are looking a little green around the gills.
The first trailer for the female-led Ocean's Eleven spinoff Ocean's 8 is here, and the thing is packed to the gills with stars.
Despite the popular believe that aiming for the snout is the best strategy, a shark's most sensitive areas are actually the eyes and gills.
There were no lockers at School Without Walls, no little sets of gills on the doors so the air could sneak in and out.
The green salamander has frilly, fern-like external gills on its head, two front arms, a long eel-like body and no back legs.
His outfit also consisted of a fiberglass helmet that was equipped with "built-in buzzing, whirring mechanics" to move his gills, according to IndieWire.
Could Mr. Jones be convincing as an amphibian lover, the creature who gets the girl, all while sporting a bulky body suit and gills?
Their pharmaceutical talent might be explained by bacteria living in their gills, which send enzymes to the gut to help shipworms break down wood.
In the rare event that a shark does happen to attack you, absolutely try to fight back, targeting the shark's eyes, gills and nose.
The creatures don't have lungs or gills, so the only other explanation seemed to be that the spiders were absorbing oxygen through their skin.
"There is a point where the gills cannot supply enough oxygen for a larger body, so the fish just stops growing larger," Cheung added.
" Yang first responded to Gills in a Twitter thread on Saturday, saying he prefers comedy that "makes people think and doesn't take cheap shots.
Gills, while somewhat less complicated than teeth, still aren't an incredibly helpful guide when it comes to pinning the species on the mystery shark.
These later iterations might each take weeks of moulding to fine-tune details, including the precise positioning of the gills and shape of the nose.
The Gills have experienced adversity as well, with Beigette suffering a traumatic spinal cord injury during a family bike trip after camp season in 2011.
And unlike Thoreau's approach to living with only the absolute essentials, my home is packed to the gills with a bevy of non-essential gadgets.
But motive isn't always about free will; sometimes the Nina Gills of the world drive the action, supersede the motivation, in art as in life.
Look closely at the huge gills on the rear hips to find they aren't just for engine cooling, they also vent out near the taillamps.
Perhaps they could cut a deal with a team like the Boston Celtics, loaded to the gills with young talent and first-round draft picks?
Some unfold vertically like the gills of an accordion, swiveling effortlessly up from their bases; others stand stoically, their smooth surfaces defined by crisp edges.
Or consider the mighty AT&T — now stuffed to the gills with an estimated $180 billion in debt following its $85 billion acquisition of TimeWarner.
"If you've got cold air, that'll freeze their gills up very quickly," said Greg Skomal, a marine scientist for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.
But, after straying into the gymnasium a couple of times, I finally found it: a plain room packed to the gills with striking art pieces.
"There were nitrogen bubbles forming under its skin and gills," said Dr. Stiassny, an ichthyologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Two years later, a man named Derek was dared to drink his can of booze directly from the gills of a striper he'd just caught.
"It's wrong to sell the gills and say they have a medical value, because there is no modern scientific proof to actually support it," he said.
I found some mushrooms with brown caps and gills underneath that looked like good prospects, but they were deemed unworthy—we needed ones with gummy undersides.
The men treat it as a wild animal, and it kinda looks like one: humanoid in shape and size, but with scales, gills, and webbed fingers.
The women on the show are all grotesque stereotypes of women: desperate, loathing, cruel, selfish, needy, image-obsessed, and stuffed to the gills with "preventative" botox.
Next he tore out its gills with his thumbs and ran his fingers through its belly, from throat to tail, until its insides were quite clean.
The very simple creature, Xenoturbella, has no brain, gills, eyes, or reproductive organs, and only one opening through which food goes in and waste goes out.
I got people who didn't insist I got drugged to the gills with a lot of mind numbing things that basically turn you into a vegetable.
An article on Tuesday about protecting salamanders in the United States from a deadly fungus misidentified the type of salamander that keeps its gills as adults.
Stashed down there the night before the footings were poured, apparently, and then triggered when the building was finished and stuffed to the gills with people.
At Zenefits, the sensibility was one of a boiler room — packed to the gills, every employee on the phone, all of them cheering every sales goal.
That said, there's also a robust summer rental market, much of which had been dominated by college-age renters filling small beach bungalows to the gills.
The latest weird thing scientists have found out about sea spiders is how they solve the problem of getting oxygen from seawater without lungs or gills.
So when I say "fish" I'm casting a very wide net (pun intended) that includes all marine vertebrates with gills that aren't tetrapods—so no salamanders.
Sounds like he wanted to bring a ton of people inside, which the prison didn't seem too down for, considering they're already packed to the gills.
We approached the gate of our neighborhood in a brand-new gas guzzling Land Rover Discovery rigged to the gills for the perils of suburban life.
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated the name of the frilled shark was derived from its teeth, when in fact it is from its gills.
Strange sirens have appeared for decades in the murky waters of Florida and Alabama—slippery, beaked, and dappled, with two front legs and ornate plumes of gills.
Plot-wise, that's just scratching the surface of a film that's packed to the gills with subplots, including a small role for fantasy-film stalwart Warwick Davis.
Check it out:Image: The Fudge Lab/University of GuelphThe stuff bonds to the gills of a predatory fish, and the would-be predator basically suffocates on snot.
But I loaded my beat up iPhone 5 with music until it was bursting at the gills and then attempted to rent Peter Jackson's 6.83 gigabyte masterpiece.
Aviation enthusiasts yearning for ultra-fast, ultra-sleek intercontinental transportation—rather than 18-hour flights on stuffed-to-the gills widebody behemoths—might finally get their wish.
Sea turtles, on the other hand, do not have gills but are similarly affected through their mucus membranes or when ingesting the red tide bloom, Bartleson said.
It's packed to the gills with the fastest Qualcomm processor, a huge 4,000 mAh battery, and the top-tier model has a whopping 512GB of internal storage.
Cyprinid Herpesvirus 3 kills the carp by destroying its skin, kidneys and gills, but it does not harm humans, even if they eat infected carp, scientists say.
To help cool the engine and gearbox, the teams carve out vents, or gills, in the bodywork, particularly on the side of the cockpit, and the airbox.
The gills of the stone-eating shipworms are much larger than other shipworms', suggesting that the organ's tiny inhabitants may be particularly important to the creature's survival.
"What we can say is that the bacteria we find in the gills are not related to the bacteria we've found in any other shipworm to date."
Its eyes were connected dumbbell-style by a lateral bar, its elongated snout dangled loosely from its head, and it sported porthole-like gills along its flank.
That eeriness was enveloping as I settled into my sleek, all-white hotel, Naia Resort, with diagonal outdoor walkways stacked one on top of another, like gills.
"Whatever it is, its origins go back long ago to when our ancestors were literally living in the oceans and breathing through our gills," he told us.
According to Dr. Danyiyk, the fish was anesthetized in the water, then removed from its tank for the quick procedure, as sterile water ran through its gills.
You can stun the fish, immediately spike them in the brain and leave them to bleed out in water through an incision in their gills (standard ikejime).
Members of this underclass have not begun to grow gills, like the buff men and women in Kevin Costner's "Waterworld," but that may not be far off.
The axolotl, sometimes called the Mexican walking fish, is a cheerful tube sock with four legs, a crown of feathery gills and a long, tapered tail fin.
Saddled with the worst attendance in the N.B.A. this season, Barclays Center in Brooklyn was packed to the gills with fans waving towels and hooting and yelling.
"Lesser sirens are one of Indiana's most peculiar salamanders with their long, eel-like bodies, feathery gills, and only two front legs (no hind legs)," Indiana DNR explained.
Goldfish have a special adaptation to deal with the low-oxygen environments beneath frozen ponds, one that produces ethanol which they release into the water through their gills.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian synchronised swimming stars Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina's near-flawless routines have long had fans joking they are secretly mermaids or have gills.
The UFC announced its partnership with USADA back in 2015 and it was an attempt to counter the perception that everyone in MMA was juiced to the gills.
A Falcon 215 loaded to the gills with the flat Starlink test satellites (they're "production design" but not final hardware) is vertical at launchpad 20 in Cape Canaveral.
To look at my feed, you'd think I spent my days doing muscle-ups in $70 shorts and my nights strapped to the gills with various recovery devices.
After the fish are caught, the men take them to their chests, massaging and caressing them as the fish spread their gills gasping for water and slowly expire.
SCIENCE TIMES An article on Tuesday about protecting salamanders in the United States from a deadly fungus misidentified the type of salamander that keeps its gills as adults.
Not only is it packed to the gills with club ready jams, but the variation in selection speaks volumes of the DJ and producer's illustrious, far-reaching career.
Playing a coked-to-the-gills restaurant manager named Pale, Mr. Malkovich seemed to morph overnight from quirky character actor into a leading man of dangerous sex appeal.
Hydrogen sulfide — released from decaying vegetation and rotting animals in the swamps where it lives — is digested by symbiotic bacteria that lives in the giant shipworm's outsize gills.
More than anything, the Gills seem focused on parenthood, which they describe as a constantly unfolding mystery, especially since they are not genetically connected to June and Kean.
Imagine a conference that kicks off with dancing and lip synching into a room packed to the gills with high-powered and successful women in the financial industry.
On the ground floor, which is stuffed to the gills with edible delights, you can grab some bread and cheese, bagels and lox, or grape leaves to go.
Avalon's emergency crisis phone will stay online for now, Bruning said, and they'll keep housing the 21 survivors they have in a shelter that's "stuffed to the gills" already.
Avalon's emergency crisis phone will stay online for now, Bruning said, and they'll keep housing the 218 survivors they have in a shelter that's "stuffed to the gills" already.
The species has "an unusual morphology," according to the paper—a serpentine body reaching lengths of two feet, and a head adorned with a crown of antler-like gills.
It's not your typical "sad" CES booth—it's huge and filled to the gills with products—but the contents inside show what happens when a brand collapses into itself.
As a result, when waters heat up, the fishes' metabolism accelerates, and their gills need to extract more oxygen from the water for basic functions like feeding and breathing.
" He also suggested not aiming for the nose if the shark comes towards you, but instead go for their eyes and gills, which are a "shark's most sensitive area.
Gillnets hang vertically in the water column and are intended to grab fish by the gills—but all too often, they end up marine mammals too, including the vaquita.
Image: Andrew Gillis/University of CambridgeOver a century ago, scientists discarded a proposed theory that human limbs evolved from gills, given the lack of evidence in the fossil record.
" He also suggested not aiming for the nose if the shark comes towards you, but instead go for their eyes and gills, which are a "shark's most sensitive area.
Sea creatures can make urea too, though—and in sharks this molecule, which they synthesise in their gills, plays a crucial role in stabilising the salinity of their tissues.
Every day, I dig through that thick layer of snow-like ice that lines our fish delivery box, hoping that I'll be pulling out a beauty by the gills.
Located in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, Amazon 2726-Star is packed to the gills with products that are — you guessed it — rated 275 stars or more on the Amazon website.
"If you've got cold air, that'll freeze their gills up very quickly," Greg Skomal, a marine scientist for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, told The New York Times.
At home, I placed my fresh jack-o'-lanterns, gills up, in a cardboard box in the corner of a windowless bathroom and waited for my eyes to adjust.
Her desire to pare down began in 2009, when she suddenly felt that her two-bedroom brick cottage in Ontario looked stuffed to the gills with antiques and lace.
The Thermo Gills are the most impressive as they help vent excess heat so efficiently that it actually raises the Sonic's temperature rating up by as much as 20ºF.
Aadsen thanks each animal as it comes aboard before she slices its gills to bleed, before she cleans it and places it in the hold below the Nerka's deck.
Many booths are elegantly arranged and give works room to breathe, and others are jammed to the gills, sometimes fetchingly, sometimes with homey bins of photographs to browse through.
I cradled her gently, pressing lightly on her flanks, trying to keep the fish upright, moving it backward and forward, forcing water through her gills, seeking to revive her.
Advocates say the manta campaign has one other advantage over previous efforts to stem the trade in endangered species: Ray gills have never been officially recognized as traditional Chinese medicine.
A sophisticated reassessment of the fossils determined it was a vertebrate, with gills and a stiffened rod, or notochord, that functioned as a rudimentary spinal cord and supported its body.
These small particles are known to accumulate in the gills and stomachs of ocean fish, and to move up the food chain when a larger fish eats a smaller one.
Sabella spallanzani, a marine worm that lives in warm Mediterranean waters off the coast of Italy, twirls its feather-like gills to create a truly out-of-this-world display.
Known to a million mums worldwide as the bloke who sung on "One More Time" by Daft Punk, Romanthony's back catalogue is stuffed to the gills with screamer after screamer.
A critically endangered species, the vaquita porpoise, lives in the gulf and has decreased in population largely due to gillnets (a type of net that traps fish by their gills).
He likes to travel with just his Tumi Alpha 3 backpack, which he fills "to the gills" with cameras, a laptop, clothes, and sometimes even a second set of footwear.
The tumbling process makes them a little firmer so that you don't have sprawling oyster gills in the same way as some of the other kinds that are out there.
Other stories say that these babies grew gills and fins and survived — and now they seek revenge on their mothers by luring unsuspecting victims to their deaths in the river.
Every summer, the most popular European destinations get stuffed to the gills with tourists, who outnumber locals by many multiples, turning hot spots into sweaty, selfie-stick-clogged, "Disneyfied" towns.
At the same time they are traveling away from the gills gravity pulls them down and the spores catch a ride on air currents to spawn into new mushrooms elsewhere.
It looks devilishly hard to construct, when you think of the added complication of arranging those quote letters to work with a stuffed-to-the-gills 15 X 15 grid.
Alongside far more familiar polliwogs and salamander larvae, fairy shrimp swim upside down, rhythmically beating abdominal appendages that double as gills while they strain nearly microscopic sustenance from the water.
Relatives of the giant shipworm are known to bore into soggy, submerged wood — digesting the wood particles they churn up with the help of symbiotic bacteria that live in their gills.
Now scientists at the University of Cambridge have performed experiments on the embryos of skates that point to a possible evolutionary connection between the gills of those fish and our limbs.
He's a humanoid creature who has both lungs and gills — he's a fishman, and he's the star of Guillermo Del Toro's film The Shape of Water, which arrives in theaters today.
In other words, they were exactly the kind of thing that sounded great when played in dingy sweaty little clubs to crowds stuffed to the gills with art school drop outs.
How it works: Using scanning electron microscopy, researchers found the lips of the aptly-named tubelip wrasse are covered in thin mucous-producing membranes similar to the gills of a mushroom.
Dr. Kajiura was talking about gills, but "thin, leaky mucus membrane" could also double as the least sexy description of a vagina ever (and that's including Martin Lawrence's infamous SNL monologue).
Their broad, flat, gently smiling heads are surrounded by a ruff of reddish, feathery gills; the thin-limbed bodies end in a broad, tapering tail the shape of a willow leaf.
The problem is that the gills' surface area does not grow at the same pace as the rest of the fish's body — and warm water contains less oxygen than cooler water.

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