Message from @Uksio
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But small reptiles make no use of it (except turtles)
And birds evolved that feature even further into those lung sacks for breathing in high-speed wind
What I am trying to say is that dinos had literal turbo-lungs
They had to because of their size
Most if not all modern Reptiles are descended from Tetrapods
aka the reptilians that ruled the earth before the dinosaurs
but they aren't "related"
They have manual pumps in their wings
Aaaand recirculation rings
while Dinossaurs Evolved/Devolved (it's complicated) into Avians, Tetrapods remained mostly the same ever since the Permian Extinction Event
A human runner with a recirculation and arm-pump-sacks would be able to run much further
Our lungs are not very efficient at high intensity
actually that's not really important, if you manage to somehow keep pumping air into the human body, you wont stop.
short of muscle exhaustion
but otherwise a human in peak condition wouldnt stop if you pumped him with air straight to the lungs
Human lungs struggle to supply enough air when the demand is high
Bird lungs solved that one
which is something that's being worked on in the military
next generation body armour and advances into exoskeletons
crocodile/aligator lung on top
It is also a recirculatory type
Even though crocs are not high intensity runners
I am though curious why birbs didn't evolve a complete pass-through design with designated intake and exhaust air passges
That would be the most efficient breathing method of all
Kinda if the left nostril would be only inhaling, and the right only exhaling
left one is the bird lung scheme (right is mammal)
Imagine if on the left side the tubes would not be joining, then the flow ould be continuous and uninterrupted
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