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Why fish can not ljve without water?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

There are some fish that have evolved over the millenia to survive for a while without water because they have developed methods of either using or conserving oxygen. The vast majority of fish however can not get oxygen from air because they have gills rather than lungs and so they can not breath without water flowing over their gills.

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