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Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest by 10111001 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:31AM (#50289733)
> And, 5 million years later, which is the time it took to design this very complicated thing, Mr. R&D came up with a lung system with both an entry point and an exit point, with hollow bones and air-sacs to temporarily store oxygenated air. It was super-efficient compared to any previous lung system and made the best use of the limited oxygen. The animals that received this gift from Mr. R&D were the dinosaurs.

I'd like to know the process by which you evolve from a single-orifice lung system to a dual-orifice lung system in something as complicated as a reptile.

Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest by empath75 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:53AM (#50290100)
There are living reptiles that are still kind of in the intermediate stage with one-way airflow through parts of their respiratory system without having two orifices.
Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest by maybewhenthesun on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:00AM (#50290209)
Which is also what birds do I think. They also only have only one orifice