Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Amelia de los Rios (USA) can be considered a real-life mermaid. As a professional freediver, Amelia has incredible lung capacity and is used to spending lengthy amounts of time underwater. She decided ...

Some of these animals can stay submerged for staggering lengths of time. But which animal can hold its breath the longest? And what characteristics enable it to do this? Although diving times can ...