Aerosteon

Further research indicated the dinosaur known as Aerosteon had the kind of air sacs found in birds.

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While Aerosteon might have breathed like a bird, it certainly couldn't fly.

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Aerosteon, seems to have had a unique breathing system that birds likely inherited through evolution.

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Sereno says the fossil evidence indicates the same might have been true for Aerosteon, which roughly translates to "air bones."

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While Aerosteon might have breathed like a bird, it certainly couldn't fly.

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He believes the ancestors of Aerosteon were isolated to South America, surviving long after their relatives on the other continents died out due to competition from more advanced predators, like the tyrannosaurs. looked like?

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"Having found these air pockets in Aerosteon, we reasoned that we really have to accept that Aerosteon and other predatory dinosaurs, likely feathered, these dinosaurs likely breathed like birds."

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Sereno says the fossil evidence indicates the same might have been true for Aerosteon, which roughly translates to "air bones."

ScienCentral 2009

Aerosteon, seems to have had a unique breathing system that birds likely inherited through evolution.

ScienCentral 2009

"Having found these air pockets in Aerosteon, we reasoned that we really have to accept that Aerosteon and other predatory dinosaurs, likely feathered, these dinosaurs likely breathed like birds."

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