Do Fish Drink Water?

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Sea horse or Seahorse, Hippocampus. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata, Class: Actinopterygii, Order: Syngnathiformes, Family: Syngnathidae, Subfamily: Hippocampinae

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Large ocean waves breaking on a stormy day. (wave; sea; whitecaps; storm)

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Drinking water is poured into a glass.

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Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant

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Aurochs. Bos primigenius. Skeleton. Extinct animal. Skeleton of an Aurochs, an extinct wild ox.

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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

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