T.J. Uriona and a Gator (IMAGE)

University of Utah

T.J. Uriona and a Gator

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T.J. Uriona, a University of Utah doctoral student in biology, holds a juvenile American alligator. Uriona and his professor, biologist C.G. Farmer, have published a study showing how alligators use muscles to move their lungs backward to help them dive, and to one side or the other to roll.

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Hannah Chirillo.

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