miracles
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The noises coincide with the movement of the rays’ spiracles, slits behind their eyes they use to breathe while resting on the ocean floor.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 20, 2022
Air enters and leaves the tracheal system through the spiracles.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The skull of Elpistostege contains a clue: at the back of the head is a pair of large holes called spiracles.
From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020
Certain species, such as nurse sharks, can do this by sucking water through their mouths or special openings on their heads known as spiracles.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014
Some points about it, and especially the position of the spiracles, being yet rather obscure in his mind, he requested me to examine my material, which I have thus been led to do.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
