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cm0002@toast.ooo to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago

Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

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Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

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cm0002@toast.ooo to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago
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Our nostrils share the workload like coworkers on rotation.
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    The same reason we have two eyes and snakes have forked tongues.

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      … So the snake can lick both our eyeballs at the same time before biting us on the nose?! Also two snake fangs, two human nostrils, aaahk it’s twos all the way down!

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        Snakes smell with their tongues.

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