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"Instead of swishing fins, feet or flippers, alligators surprisingly move their lungs around inside their body to dive, surface and roll in water.

This newly discovered strategy may be one that many animals have been employing for millennia to maneuver and avoid creating ripples in the water — helping them sneak toward prey or away from predators. "

http://www.livescience.com//animals/080313-alligator-lungs.html

What might human life be like if we had this same ability?

UGH!!

Is that what they use to suddenly jump out of the water and frighten the life out of you? I saw one do this on a river in North Australia. I was in a tourist boat and the croc was enticed to the area by the promise of a dead chicken on the end of a (very) long stick. It suddenly completely came out of the water, snapped the chook and dived beneath the water all in a few breathless seconds. It was a really scary demonstration of power, and the stuff of nightmares!

Maybe humans would need the teeth that go with the jump!