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Archosaurs

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Field guideWhy birds have air sacsBird lungs do not inflate and collapse like mammalian lungs. Expanding air sacs shift air through branching bronchi and parabronchi; in the best-known pathway, fresh flow continues across gas-exchange tissue during both inhalation and exhalation, while the sacs themselves exchange little gas.