| 1. | The salt gland has two countercurrent mechanisms working in it:
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| 2. | Salt glands maintain salt balance and allow marine vertebrates to drink seawater.
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| 3. | The posterior portion likely held the salt gland.
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| 4. | The avian salt gland has two main ducts which are a medial and a lateral.
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| 5. | Inside the lacrimal bones were depressions that may have held glands, such as salt glands.
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| 6. | Salt glands are dysfunctional in Alligatoridae.
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| 7. | Salt glands also play a major role in the secretion of excess salts in Ad�lie penguins.
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| 8. | Specifically, the salt gland works to pump out and concentrate large quantities of sodium chloride.
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| 9. | Some theories suggest mammalian tear ducts and sweat glands may be evolutionarily related to salt glands.
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| 10. | Foramen in the turtle's skull where salt glands where is an interesting evolutionary point.
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