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 ...

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The answer: It depends on the rules. As the Daily Mail explains, humans set breath-holding records in water because they "can hold their breath twice as long underwater as they can on land.” The ...