T. rex Breathed Like Birds! | TYRANT FILES
2,181Birds are weird. They are what happens when you force a dinosaur to fly after all. As a consequence of evolving to fly in a completely different way to the skin and muscle flying pterosaurs, the skeleton of the avian dinosaur has been altered in bizarre and often disgusting ways. One of those ways are little itty-bitty spikes that protrude from their ribs. What are they, why are they there, and how far back in their family tree do they go? A brand-new study tried to tackle these questions and more and found something more far reaching than initially intended.
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Wang, Yy., Claessens, L.P.A.M. & Sullivan, C. Deep reptilian evolutionary roots of a major avian respiratory adaptation. Commun Biol 6, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04301-z
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