How Do Salamander Breathe? Most salamanders are like frogs and other amphibians: they start their lives in water , then lose their gills and grow lungs as they mature. As adults, they breathe air and live on land. Do salamander have lungs? But most, like the arboreal salamander and the California slender salamander, don’t have
Who Was The First Person To See A Mermaid? On this day in 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near the Dominican Republic, sees three “mermaids”–in reality manatees–and describes them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted.” Six months earlier, Columbus (1451-1506) set off from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean with the Nina,
What Is The Definition Of A Female Siren? : a woman who is very attractive but also dangerous : temptress. : one of a group of female creatures in Greek mythology whose singing attracted sailors and caused them to sail into dangerous water or toward rocks. What does siren beauty mean? a seductively beautiful or