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Re: CNN on Lungs and Feathers

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>This is not actually an issue in regard to its *existence*.  The reason
>that pneumatic vertebrae demonstrate the existence of an adjacent air-sac
>is that such pneumatic cavities are only known to form by expansion of
>diverticulae from such an air-sac.

So by this reasoning turtles, crocs, and lizards--animals with pneumatized
vertebrae--also had air sacs?


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