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Would we know about flow-through lungs if birds were extinct?

https://doi.org/10.59350/nd281-mwv13
Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Last night a thought occurred to me, and I wrote to Matt: If birds had gone extinct 66 Mya along with all the other dinosaurs, would it ever have occurred to us that they had flow-through lungs?