A series of webnotes on dinosaurian physiology:

• Basic principles and evidence
• Lungs, hearts, surface area/volume
• Predator/prey ratios
• Physiology roundup

Website on research on breathing in non-mammalian vertebrates (with Quicktime movies).

Supplementary reading:

• Carrier, D.R. & C.G. Farmer. 2000. The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs. Paleobiology 26: 271-293.
• Chinsamy, A., P. Dodson & J.O. Farlow. 1995. Dinosaur biology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26: 445-471. [only abstract is available online]

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