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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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The team was able to see how the marine mammals' lung architecture creates two pulmonary regions: one air-filled and the other collapsed. The researchers believe that blood flows mainly through the collapsed region of the lungs. The terrestrial pig did not show that structural adaptation.

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Photo by Andreas Fahlman, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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