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From the Ted Talk by Emma Schachner: The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet

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Evidence of this straightjacketed lung in dinosaurs means that they had the capability to evolve a lung that would have been able to breathe under the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the tssriiac period. This rigid skeletal setup in dinosaurs would have given them a significant adaptive adtaanvge over other animals, particularly mammals, whose fileblxe lung couldn't have adapted to the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the Triassic. This anatomy may have been the secret weapon of dinosaurs that gave them that advantage over other animals. And this gives us an excellent launchpad to start ttiseng the hypotheses of diranauiosn deoictfivarisin.

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Evidence of this straightjacketed lung in dinosaurs means that they had the capability to evolve a lung that would have been able to breathe under the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the ________ period. This rigid skeletal setup in dinosaurs would have given them a significant adaptive _________ over other animals, particularly mammals, whose ________ lung couldn't have adapted to the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the Triassic. This anatomy may have been the secret weapon of dinosaurs that gave them that advantage over other animals. And this gives us an excellent launchpad to start _______ the hypotheses of ___________ _______________.

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  1. dinosaurian
  2. diversification
  3. advantage
  4. flexible
  5. testing
  6. triassic

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Evidence of this straightjacketed lung in dinosaurs means that they had the capability to evolve a lung that would have been able to breathe under the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the Triassic period. This rigid skeletal setup in dinosaurs would have given them a significant adaptive advantage over other animals, particularly mammals, whose flexible lung couldn't have adapted to the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, atmosphere of the Triassic. This anatomy may have been the secret weapon of dinosaurs that gave them that advantage over other animals. And this gives us an excellent launchpad to start testing the hypotheses of dinosaurian diversification.

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