Bone histological correlates for air sacs and their implications for understanding the origin of the dinosaurian respiratory system

Recent advances on the functional and evolutionary morphology of the amniote respiratory apparatus

(2016) Markus Lambertz   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

A juvenile sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Utah, U.S.A., presents further evidence of an avian style air-sac system

(2016) Keegan M. Melstrom et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Lungs of the first amniotes: why simple if they can be complex?

(2015) M. Lambertz et al.   Biology Letters

Histological evidence for muscle insertion in extant amniote femora: implications for muscle reconstruction in fossils

(2013) Holger Petermann et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Postcranial axial skeleton ofEuropasaurus holgeri(Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Germany: implications for sauropod ontogeny and phylogenetic relationships of basal Macronaria

(2013) José L. Carballido et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

An Evolutionary Cascade Model for Sauropod Dinosaur Gigantism - Overview, Update and Tests

(2013) P. Martin Sander   PLoS One

Pulmonary anatomy in the Nile crocodile and the evolution of unidirectional airflow in Archosauria

(2013) Emma R. Schachner et al.   PeerJ

Boundary Conditions for Heat Transfer and Evaporative Cooling in the Trachea and Air Sac System of the Domestic Fowl: A Two-Dimensional CFD Analysis

(2012) Nina S. Sverdlova et al.   PLoS One

The Early Evolution of Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs

(2011) Adam M. Yates et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Evolution of archosaurian body plans: skeletal adaptations of an air-sac-based breathing apparatus in birds and other archosaurs

(2009) Patrick Michael O'Connor   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Implications of an avian-style respiratory system for gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) Steven F. Perry et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Evidence for bird-like air sacs in saurischian dinosaurs

(2009) Mathew John Wedel   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology