How do marine mammals avoid the bends?

(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals can get the bends -- the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who surface too quickly. A new study offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally avoid getting the bends and how they can succumb under stressful conditions.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 25, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news