Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The secret to their incredible lifestyle, besides their well-adapted skeletal and ...

Did you know that the average human takes over 600 million breaths in their lifetime? As our key survival function, breathing is so necessary that it is primarily an involuntary act–it’s hardwired ...

Curious to know how long Superman could hold his breath in the DCU and the comics? The latest movie presented an impressive demonstration of his breathing powers when he went up against Luthor’s ...

Some of these animals can stay submerged for staggering lengths of time. But which animal can hold its breath the longest? And what characteristics enable it to do this? Although diving times can ...