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Congratulations and well done to the two English anglers who were fishing on Gills Pond recently and rescued a young cygnet that was in trouble.
The new ro-ro ferry service from St Margaret's Hope to Gills Bay in Caithness fell foul of the weather at the weekend, with all sailings on Saturday cancelled.
Gillingham After Thursday's game the Gills made an overnight stop in the Midlands to avoid a lengthy coach trip back to Kent in the early hours.
In the High Weald Gills are deeply cut ravines, usually with a stream in the base which historically eroded the ravine.
Dactylogyrids from the Gills of Rhamdia guatemalensis from cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, with proposal of Ameloblastella gen.
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 included a demo version of the route, featuring the mainline from Ais Gills summit to a fictional colliery town called Wharton.
Janvier agrees that gills, and perhaps the external branchial skeleton, are primitive to the chordates.
Otherwise they have to keep swimming to force oxygenated water past their gills.
It takes several weeks after hatching to form and until then they are dependent on water absorbed through the gills, the same as any other fish.
At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's gills or front fin.
Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills.
To make matters worse, fish have large respiratory membranes, the gills, which expose a huge amount of surface area to the watery medium.
In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of gills for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
Fish with torn gills die as inevitably as you would if your lungs were shredded.
In any fish, when blood cycles through the gills to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks.
In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed.
In addition to two eyes and a mouth, this animal has markings suggesting gills.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Gills narrow, close, adnexed or free, whitish or tinged with flesh-color.
Gills typically free, often remote, not sinuate or decurrent.
The Gills hit back as Andy Hessenthaler's inswinging corner was flicked on by Mark Saunders for Wallace to sneak in at the far post.
The barramunda, in fact, can breathe by either gills or lung alone or by both simultaneously.
The gills are crowded, and when bruised, or in age, the indigo blue color changes somewhat to greenish.
The gills are narrow and crowded, decurrent, considerably paler than the cap.
The gills are attached to the stem or with a decurrent tooth, as in Mycena.
The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it.
Equal gills, extreme brittleness, and dry, firm texture are characteristic of the whole russula family.
The gills are attached to the stem or notched near the junction of the gills and the stem.
The class of Mollusca comprising the ordinary bivalves, characterised by the possession of lamellar gills.
In addition to this, there is a membrane in the mouth which can be inflated through the gills.
The cap has the margin incurved, the gills have a tooth, and are adnexed to the stem.
On either side of the body between the mantle and the foot are two flat gills each composed of two lamellae.
In this figure one can see the change in color of the gills just at the time when they begin to deliquesce.
The gills have become shifted forward by a metastasis similar to that which brought the whole thoracic organs far forward in fish.
In some of the species of Omphalia the pileus is not umbilicate, but here the gills are plainly decurrent.
This genus can be readily recognized from the black spores and from the deliquescence of the gills and cap into an inky substance.
The mottled appearance of the gills is due to the falling of the black spores.
A number of neuropterous insects whose early stages are passed in the water are furnished with branchial trache or false gills.
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