Anatomy
Dinosaurs secret weapon
What is their lungs
Percentage of oxygen in that time
What is 15%
Direct descendants of dinosaurs
What is Birds?
Mammalian lungs are mobile while bird lungs are...
What is immobile?
Dinosaurs skeleton resembles most of
What is Birds?
Closest living relatives
flexible, bag-like structures that branch off of the bronchial tree
What is Air Sacs?
Name of the process by which oxygen crosses the thin membrane into the bloodstream
What is Diffusion?
Time period when dinosaurs walked the earth
What is Triassic period
Dinosaurs cousins
What is lizards and turtles?
Where in the body would the lungs invade to anchor and become immobilized
What is Vertebrae and ribs?
Study of the anatomy of the lung and skeleton
What is extant phylogenetic bracketing
What's the name of the TED talk presenter?
What is Emma Schachner?
Helps lock the top surface of the lungs. Seen in birds and dinosaurs
What is Forked ribs?
extensions arise from the lung and the air sacs, they invade the skeletal tissues and they lock the respiratory system into place
What is vertebral pneumaticity?
membrane over which oxygen was diffusing into the bloodstream
What is blood-gas barrier?