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Humans ARE able to breathe under water. It is just complicated that only the talented beings can perform.

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Why cant people breathe in water?

According to many scientists and researches, people cannot breathe in water because water molecules cannot be absorbed by human lungs. Humans have lungs that do not have enough surface area to absorb enough oxygen from water. Our lungs are more much more adapted to air than water.


Can you breathe out all the air in your lungs?

try it and youll find out u cant breath out that last bit although about %98 goes out XD


Which part of the skeleton protects the heart and lungs?

no i cant answer


What is the different between a frogs nostril and a humans nostril?

Frogs have two nostrils on the top of their snout, while humans have two separate nostrils on each side of their nose. Additionally, frogs use their nostrils primarily for breathing, while humans use theirs for both breathing and detecting smells.


Why do fish have gills?

Gills are a vital part of the respiratory system in fish and other aquatic organisms. Humans (and other mammals) have tiny air sacs in the lungs, alveoli, that are responsible for the exchange of gases to and from the blood. The same is true with fish, except their version of alveoli (gills) are external to exchange gases directly to and from the water. This allows for a process called "countercurrent exchange" by which oxygen is able to diffuse into the capillaries of the gills as the fish swims.Fish without gills is like you without lungs. The intake of oxygen and export of carbon dioxide can't be possible solely through integumentary diffusion in multicellular organisms.Fish have gills because they need to breathe in the water.They take the place of lungs, and permit fish to breathe oxygen from water.fish have gilles so that they can breath under water and also swim and breath at the same timefish have gills to breath underwater. They cant breath on land because gills are for breathing underwater and lungs are for breathing on land.People used to take baby puppies and drown them in the water. They did this because they wanted to see if they were able to survive in the water. So one puppy, by the name of Kelsey, was in the middle of being drowned, and it thought of its inner strength. It then began to shake and the water turned neon red! When the person who was drowning the puppy lifted it up, the puppy had gills and became quite scalish. Then the puppy swam away and it later mated with another fish and they made:GOLD FISHPEACE OUT

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Why cant people breathe in water?

According to many scientists and researches, people cannot breathe in water because water molecules cannot be absorbed by human lungs. Humans have lungs that do not have enough surface area to absorb enough oxygen from water. Our lungs are more much more adapted to air than water.


Why cant you live under water?

cause you don't have gills but we have lungs to breathe the oxygen in water


Why dont humans breath through their skin?

Humans have water proof skin and that is why we cant breathe through it.


If babies can breathe in water in your belly then why cant we breathe under water?

Babies don't breathe the water in the womb. Their mothers breathe for them, and supply them with oxygen through the umbilical cord. Babies don't start breathing until they are born. Humans, well no mammal can breathe water, because our lungs can't get any oxygen from it. Although they do the same job, gills work in a slightly different manner, which allows fish to get oxygen from the water the way we get it from the air.


Why do you drown when you breathe in water?

Humans are developed to breathe air by gas exchange in the lungs. We do not have the physical capability, like fish, to have a gas exchange with water. -- Also, because your heart is pumping and you need a lot of oxygen for your blood. The same with any physical activity.


Why humans don't breath under water?

they cant breathe because if we do we can drink the water and possibly choke and die.


Why cant a person live without lungs?

Because lungs are what make you breathe, and without breathing we would die.


What can kill a barrucuda?

humans fish for them so technically humans can trap them and they are taken out of the water so they then cant breathe and die. Or you could just get explosives and blow them up. Or if you cant do that try poisoned bait.


Why cant the blue whale breathe under water?

Blue whales are mammals. They breathe air with lungs, pretty much just like you and I. When they dive, they hold their breath.


Why cant a squid live on land?

Because squid do not have legs to walk, they can only swim, and they do not have lungs to breathe air.


How was lung cancer discover?

It was discover by when your lungs are stuck and messed up and you cant breathe


Why can cows survive on gas but humans cant?

Cows can't survive on gas alone. Neither can humans. Both cows and humans need food and water to survive, not just oxygen (which is a gas we breathe).