To end the gill debate and discussing the monsters that he will possibly fight

I see what you mean about the gills, but keep in mind that he is most likely supposed to me a mutated monster. which means that different aspects from different animals could have mixed with him during his mutation and that if there was more than one godzilla, that evolution could have had a playing part in it. that's just my opinion. i actually think it's cool that you went to a scientist about that. Now there are actual scientists studying Godzilla!!!

now onto the other monsters. That's just kick ass that Talaghan is now confirmed to be in the the film! I also like that fact that there is the possibility that there are giong to be more than just 2 HUGE mutos in the movie! and that there is possibly going to be a WATER MUTO??!!! THAT'S JUST KICK ASS!!! wonder who will be the BIG DADDY boss muto?

I don't care if you, your friend, or anyone else here are scientists. That doesn't change the fact that you're getting your panties in a bunch over a very minor character detail. Godzilla having gills isn't really anything more than a minor detail that justifies one of his abilities (the ability in question being Godzilla staying underwater for very, very long periods of time). It's the equivalent of saying that Anguirus has a very flexible backbone that allows him to roll up into a ball like an armadillo. It's a change to the character, but it's so minor that it doesn't warrent a bunch of forum threads discussing it, let alone one thread.

And even if Godzilla doesn't look like he has gills in the brief glimpses we see of him in the latest trailer, how in the blue hell do you explain this?

This is an image I got from this thread. You see those flaps of skin on the side of Godzilla's neck? They look different than the rest of the skin all around that area. I'm no expert in biology, but I think I've seen enough goldfish, sharks, and what have you to know that those look like gills. If those aren't supposed to be gills, than just what are they? Seriously, I'm all ears as to what those skinflaps could possibly be.

I really don't mind if he has gills. Gills or not, I've come up with my own explanations for just about anything about Godzilla that could prove he could exist in real life, including the whole "gills debacle". So, I;m fine with whatever. I'll update my ideas as more info is shared about the Big G.

You can't just selectively apply science like that. Oh, Godzilla is a massively and impossibly sized creature that can survive nuclear blasts, but he HAS to have gills to survive underwater for long periods of time?

Well tell your scientist friend that godzilla doesn't give a **** about science. Godzilla doesn't listen to ****. You can't just through a bull**** scientific fact like tha into godzilla. Surviving nuclear blasts isn't real.....breathing out nuclear energy isn't real and we as fans can accept that fact but still enjoy the mists of forgeting about reality and expeiriancing imagination. But throwing scientific facts doesn't prove **** becuase godzilla isn't 100% realistic. You and your scientific friend can't prove anything just by throwing realistic facts at us.

Not to be mean or anything but you should read my post carefully before you reply cause you didn't read it at all. Like I said godzilla isn't 100% realistic so a scientist can't prove something thats in the imagination zone. I'm no expert on gills but to me they resemble gills ALOT. How about we agree to see the movie first because you seem like a nice member so the last thing I want to do is become enemies with you. Lets hope it doesn't come down to that. Because you would be suprised with the amount of enemies I have and my mail box is full of threats. So are we cool on niether of us is right bro.  :D

 It's difficult to say at this point. To me, they look like imbricate (overlapping) scutes (scale-like plates), not gills: He has the same or very similar scutes on the ventral (underside) part of his neck, and those are obviously not gills. Moreover, he appears to have imbricate scales on his arms with the same crenated edges. 

I would be surprised if they went through all this effort to give him plausible reptile/dinosaur anatomy only to put amphibian gills on him. Then again, considering that he would need connective tissue vastly stronger than that possessed by any other organism to support his his 60,000 tons of mass combined with the fact that he is radiotrophic (feeds on ionizing radiation) AND he can project plasma from his throat, a reptile with secondarily-evolved external gills is a relatively much smaller stretch biologically speaking. Lastly, some fish have both lungs and gills, as do many amphibians, so Godzilla would still have lungs as well as gills assuming he has them at all in the movie. Right now, they just look like overlapping scales like those of his throat and arms.