Breathe
TED Radio Hour
The Origins of Dinosaurs Lungs
Paleontologist Emma Schachner has found that dinosaur lungs were structured in a similar way to bird lungs. This means they could breathe more easily under the low oxygen environment of the Triassic period. And being able to breathe more easily means they could hunt more easily, run around more easily and reproduce more easily. So lungs might be the key to understanding how dinosaurs dominated the Earth.
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