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Pterosaurs breathed in bird-like fashion and had inflatable air sacs in their wings

Posted by Darren Naish on February 18, 2009
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Just when I’m in the middle of talking about the new dinosaurs and pterosaurs that were published in January (part I, part II, part III), February is turning out to be just as interesting. Yesterday saw the debut of the new basal sauropodomorph Panphagia protos (Martinez & Alcober 2009), and you’ll know from SV-POW! that…