The team believes that the larger, more complex snout sinuses of metriorhynchids may have helped to drain their salt glands, similar to those of modern marine iguanas. "A major problem for animals ...
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Modern birds shake their heads to avoid this, while marine iguanas sneeze to force the salt out." The international team of paleobiologists, including researchers from the University of ...
The team believe that the larger, more complex snout sinuses of metriorhynchids may have helped to drain their salt glands, in a similar way to modern marine iguanas. "A major problem for animals ...
“For metriorhynchids, when the sinuses were subjected to this effect, it would have compressed the salt glands within the skull and created a sneeze-like effect, similar to modern marine iguanas.” ...