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