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Salamanders can breathe through their skin

Salamanders can breathe through their skin

Salamanders can breathe through their skin

Many salamanders rely heavily on cutaneous respiration — oxygen and carbon dioxide moving across moist skin.

Lungless species take the idea further: no lungs at all, just skin and mouth lining as their breathing gear.

Gills of another kind. Stay damp and the whole body becomes a lung in slow motion.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Salamanders can breathe through their skin