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Can whales get the bends?

When humans dive, they risk getting painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness (also known as ‘the bends’). However, evolution appears to have enabled marine mammals to solve that problem. Science communicator Kit Russell explores how marine mammals avoid the bends

A sperm whale
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AQA Gas exchange; Mass transport in animals

OCR A Exchange surfaces; Transport in animals

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