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Bus-Sized Dinosaur Breathed Like Birds (LiveScience.com)

Flesh rendering of the 85-million-year-old predator dinosaur Aerosteon riocoloradensis, meaning 'air bones from the Rio Colorado,' discovered in Mendoza Province, Argentina, with the body wall removed to show a reconstruction of the lungs (red) and air sacs (other colors) as they might have been in life. Scientists have unearthed the remains of the large meat-eating dinosaur with a breathing apparatus much like a modern bird, fortifying the link between birds and dinosaurs and helping to explain the evolution of birds' unique system of breathing. (National Geographic Society/Todd Marshall/Handout/Reuters)LiveScience.com - A huge carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 85 million years ago had a breathing system much like that of today's birds, a new analysis of fossils reveals, reinforcing the evolutionary link between dinos and modern birds.


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