

It was in part the development of internal nostrils in ancient fishes that paved the way for our evolutionary ancestors’ migration from sea to land millions of years ago. Nostrils provide a means of air intake for lung-breathing animals and have developed into structures that exist today in great variety in the animal kingdom.

They range from little more than holes, as in the nostrils of frogs and whales, to variously shaped snouts and…

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