Skip to main content

Generate Shared Link

×

✓ Copied link

This link is exclusively for students and staff members within this organisation.

Unauthorised use will lead to account termination.

Previous

Limpets Rock stars of the shore

Next

Circadian rhythms in fruit flies

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

Kit Russell

A sperm whale
© koji.photo.jp/stock.adobe.com

AQA Gas exchange; Mass transport in animals

OCR A Exchange surfaces; Transport in animals

Your organisation does not have access to this article.

Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise

Subscribe

Previous

Limpets Rock stars of the shore

Next

Circadian rhythms in fruit flies