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Newt Surfacing

Adult newts primarily breathe through their skin and spend much of their time buried within leaves and silt at water’s bottom. But sometimes they shoot up to the surface like a ballistic missile for a gulp of air, pivot and return to the bottom. The whole process takes two seconds.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on January 7, 2023