I suspect that this may be a case of "when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" (or: "when you are a lung everything looks like oxygen"?) but I found it intriguing nonetheless:
I suspect that this may be a case of "when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" (or: "when you are a lung everything looks like oxygen"?) but I found it intriguing nonetheless:
The physiological consequences of having more bird-like lungs likely made non-avian dinosaurs more efficient at taking up oxygen from the air than other vertebrates, Brocklehurst and colleagues write, an advantage when atmospheric oxygen levels sometimes dropped. Dinosaur lung anatomy may have given them a significant survival advantage, and perhaps could be a key to why the “terrible lizards” emerged triumphant to rule the world through the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
I suspect that this may be a case of "when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" (or: "when you are a lung everything looks like oxygen"?) but I found it intriguing nonetheless: