PALAEOBLOG Unidirectional Airflow in the Lungs of Alligators. 2010. C. G. Farmer and K. Sanders. Science 327: 338-340. Air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago.
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Unidirectional Airflow in the Lungs of Alligators. 2010. C. G. Farmer and K. Sanders. Science 327: 338-340.

Air flows in one direction as it loops through the lungs of alligators, just as it does in birds. The study suggests this breathing method may have helped the dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate Earth after the planet’s worst mass extinction 251 million years ago.

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