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Caption: Flesh rendering of the 85 million-year-old meat-eater, Aerosteon ("air bones"), discovered in Mendoza Province, Argentina. More than any other dinosaur, Aerosteon helps to prove that dinosaurs breathed like birds with air sacs and stiff bird-like lungs.
Credit: Drawing:Todd Marshall c 2008, courtesy of Project Exploration
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