🤯How smart were dinosaurs? 🦕
Many times I thought about how smart the dinosaurs could have been.. 🤔🦖When I saw the fairy tale The Good Dinosaur and there was outlined a hypothetical reality of what would have happened if a meteorite had not fallen on Earth, causing the apocalypse...
A new study suggests some dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have been fairly smart.ROGER HARRIS/SPL/GETTY IMAGESExperts welcome new neuron-density data, but say findings are pre mature!!!
Was Tyrannosaurus rex as smart as a baboon? Scientists don’t like to compare intelligence between species (everyone has their own talents, after all), but a controversial new study suggests some dino brains were as densely packed with neurons as those of modern primates. If so, that would mean they were very smart—more than researchers previously thought—and could have achieved feats only humans and other very intelligent animals have, such as using tools.
Measuring dinosaur intelligence has never been easy. Please friends.. If you are interested in how they measured it please read a SOURCE of this post, becouse there it is explain and it is very interesting..
Alioramus, a 6-meter-long theropod that lived about 70 million years ago in what is now Mongolia, had just over 1 billion neurons in its cortex, similar to capuchin monkeys. And T. rex, with its brain weighing one-third of 1 kilogram, had an estimated 3.3 billion cortical neurons—a higher density than baboons, Herculano-Houzel reports.
Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroanatomist at Vanderbilt University:
“I have a whole newfound respect for T-rex,” she says. “Something that big with those teeth that had the cognitive capacity, numberwise, of a baboon … that is legit scary. It’s awesome, quite frankly, to be able to get these numbers for these amazing creatures that don’t exist anymore and to be able to add something to the puzzle of what were their lives like … before the asteroid. ”
So what do you think? Until now scientists thought dinosaurs didn't too smart.. But imagine that big toothy - and now also wise - monster here... 🦖
And what would happen next, if not for one big meteorite???? 🤔
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