E.T Salamander
Its Amazing Adaptation:E.T. Salamanders have no lungs! Now I know
what you’re thinking “How do they breathe?” They actually breathe through their skin and the tissue on their mouth. No one is exactly sure why they are lungless, but there is a hypothesis that the lunglessness in plethodontids evolved as a rheotropic adaptation for existence in cool fast-flowing mountain streams. References:
imgur imgur.com/gdqB27T?tags 19/11/ 013 Tree of life web project tolweb.org/Plethontidae/15441yfdd Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aqxBktiotlk |