Amazing video .. How to breathe lizards under water?

Scientists have discovered how wild lizards can breathe underwater, using a bubble of air trapped inside their noses.

Previously, the reptiles were thought to hold their breath for up to 16 minutes when the water was inundated, but checking the new footage revealed that they were breathing from an air bubble in the head.

Scientists say the breathing method is similar to how the diver breathes from the air tube it carries on its back, the Daily Mail reported.

The footage, filmed in Costa Rica, reveals a large "pneumatic pocket" in the head of the orchid, while the air bubble is released into the water during exhalation and disappears from the head of the small animal.

This process is repeated every few seconds, allowing inhalation and exhalation of the air bubble to circulate fresh air between the air pockets.

"I do not know much about this phenomenon," said Dr. Lindsey Swirk, who took the footage. "But she thinks it can be similar to a method used by a kind of water beetle.

"Dive beetles burn air bubbles on their bodies with the aid of surface tension, and breathe air into these bubbles," he told Business Insider.