Lizard Breath May Have Evolved Before Dinosaurs
http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/monitor-lizards-breathing-may-have-evolved-before-dinos-131211.htm
This is interesting and has me wondering how it is that we are only just now discovering it. That birds had a funky way of breathing that seemed to super charge their metabolism has (so far as I know) a long history and it would seem to me that once science had generally accepted that birds are dinosaurs, someone would have quickly started to compare birds with all other living dinosaur relatives and precursors. The article makes a plausible argument that the funky breathing (well, funky compared to us) was a survival characteristic during an earlier mass extinction event and only coincidentally wound up being the competitive advantage for the dinosaurs and later birds.
Larn supmin neu ever day!
