New Dinosaur Related to T-Rex Discovered - Provides Clues to Evolution of Birds' Breathing System

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Buenos Aires : Argentina | about 1 month ago

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The team points out the bones of the 85-million-year-old dinosaur ...

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Skull reconstruction of the head of the 85-million-year-old predator ...

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Team's field vehicle is parked above the site where the bones of the ...

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Paleontologists Sereno, Martinez and Alcocer give a news conference ...

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Flesh rendering of the 85-million-year-old predator dinosaur Aerosteon ...

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Palaeontologists Sereno, Martinez Alcocer show a replica of skull of a ...

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Remains of a new species of dinosaur distantly related to Tyrannosaurus Rex have been discovered along the Colorado River in Argentina. The predator is 10 metres long and weighs about the size of an adult elephant.

But what's most intriguing is the discovery of air holes in the lung region, precisely the mechanism found in modern birds.

Birds can fly longer and higher than other species such as bets because they have the most efficient breathing mechanism available in nature. They use air sacs to pump air through their lungs.

Discovering a similar such mechanism in another species suggests where the system may have evolved from.