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Dinosaurs' Lungs Could Be the Key to Understanding How Dinosaurus Dominated the Earth

The blood air barrier, that oxygenating membrane, is protected by special ribs and bolted to the spine. And emma has found that dinosaur lungs were structured in a similar way. Having lungs like that would mean that in the low oxygen environment of the triassic, two hundred million years ago, dinosaurs would have had a huge advantage....

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