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Evolutionary theory is that dolphins were a land animal which returned to the sea some millions of years ago. They can breathe on the surface because they have a blowhole which allows them to breathe air. They cannot survive for long out of water because their physiology requires that they be suspended in water and because their skin dries out quickly.

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