#the university of manchester

[chimpleague]

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Biologists have long known that birds, which descend from one branch of extinct dinosaurs, have an unusual, sophisticated respiratory system that enables powered flight. But paleontologists have long debated whether those superlungs arose only in birds or earlier in dinosaurs.

Unlike humans and other mammals, whose lungs expand and deflate, bird lungs are rigid. Special air sacs alongside the lungs do the heavy lifting instead, pumping air through the lungs, where the oxygen diffuses into the bloodstream. The lungs are attached to the vertebrae and ribs, which form the "ceiling" of the rib cage—all of which helps keep the lungs stationary. A connector called the costovertebral joint, where the ribs and vertebrae meet, provides further support. That setup allows for a continuous stream of oxygen and requires less energy than inflating and deflating the lungs. It also allows paleontologists studying fossils to learn a lot about the lungs by examining the bones around them.

Many dinosaurs, including therapods like Velociraptor and Spinosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur, had similar lung architecture to birds, as reported in Royal Society Open Science.

All of this suggests dinos had the same kind of efficient respiratory organs as birds. These superlungs may help explain why dinosaurs were able to dominate and spread despite the rarified air of the Mesozoic, paleobiologist Robert Brocklehurst of The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom says. Back then, the air was only 10% to 15% oxygen, compared with 20% today.

But Jingmai O'Connor, a paleontologist with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, adds that just because a fossil has the bone structure for birdlike lungs doesn't necessarily mean it actually had such lungs.

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Paraphrased from this 2018 article from science.org.

y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were

[sweetcandygirl21]

in that weird in-between space in the year where im excited for uni to start again but also wanting time to slow down cos i still have a million things to do before term starts 😫😁🤔

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 27, 2024 - Student protesters at the University of Manchester in the UK unfurl a 10 meter long banner stating clear demands to their University to cut ties with Israel's barbaric genocide:

1. Cut ties with BAE Systems 2. Cut ties with Tel Aviv & Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3. End unethical research 4. No displicinary action for protesters

[myglobaluni]

Top Universities in the United Kingdom - This is the place to be if you're looking for the top universities in the United Kingdom. for international students. This article will help you find top universities in the United Kingdom that offer a variety of study abroad programs. 

[reunitedinterlude]

lofi phantasy: the album

tracks 5-8 (x)

[modernistdelights]

Ellen Wilkinson Building, Manchester

[i-am-aprl]

Comrades are just warming up🍉🔥

[annabelle--cane]

sitting on my hands so hard every time I see a tmagp theory post based on inaccurate information because it's impolite to constantly tell random people on the internet that they're wrong and it is in fact completely normal to not have encyclopedic knowledge about these podcasts and I, magnus trivia marina, am the outlier in this situation

[macbethz]

It’s incredibly selfish but I just don’t want the general superhero film viewing population to know what the authority is. That should only be for weird nerds and gay people on the internet

[countingmoomins]

Windows in the John Rylands library 𖦹𖦹𖦹

[melhindips]

While your kids go BACK TO SCHOOL 610,000 children in GAZA struggle to go!

Manchester, UK

[meadow-roses]

chisel tip sharpie doodles of all the girls in the Dauntless wip!

in no particular order: Grace Rocha, Harley, Erin Monroe, Andrea, Carmen, Hessie, Madeline Delroy & Amy Rodzic, Julia Rodzic & Kate (the MomsTM) and Lyra Carter!

I'm thinking I might also do the guys just for fun XD

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 10, 2024 - Dozens of students at the University of Manchester use graduation to protest the University's ties to Israel, and show their support for Palestine. [video]

[disturbingstar]

On the inside, I was screaming; on the outside, I was also screaming. Some of my favourite memories from the last few horror cons were seeing the cast of Scream

[bununuu]

I’m like Actually really talking into the void here, but I can’t get over this letter from Wilfred Owen to his mom… he finally works up the nerve to talk to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart, and they’re VIBING and Wilfred is legit in love.

They’re working on their poetry, so Wilfred obvs wants his old writing back from his childhood home. But to do that, he has to write his mom asking her to literally BREAK OPEN his desk to get his notebooks, while also pleading with her to 🚫 NOT OPEN OR READ ANYTHING 🚫

These notebooks are 100% long gone (considering the fact that he also asked his mom to destroy “sackfuls” of his papers/letters if he died during wwi) but I would love to see what they said tbh 👀

[modernistdelights]

A triptych of buildings at the UMIST campus.