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To: Al Simmons

>>In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, one human character tells another that a Tyrannosaurus rex can't see them if they don't move, even though the beast is right in front of them. Now, a scientist reports that T. rex had some of the best vision in animal history. This sensory prowess strengthens arguments for T. rex's role as predator instead of scavenger. <<

I thought that was due to how the brain interpretted what the eye sees as opposed to how good the eyesite is.

You know, how you can look at a bush and not see the bird in it until the bird moves. That is due to my brain, not my eye. Last I heard, it is believed that t-rex was not all that bright.


57 posted on 07/03/2006 1:34:05 PM PDT by RobRoy (The Internet is about to do to Evolution what it did to Dan Rather. Information is power.)
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To: RobRoy
Last I heard, it is believed that t-rex was not all that bright.

Oh, no, not true at all--TRex could, in fact, do long division. ;)

66 posted on 07/03/2006 1:40:45 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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To: RobRoy

I think a cat's vision is like that. Some kind of feedback loop that makes their eyes turn and look towards movement.


73 posted on 07/03/2006 1:45:21 PM PDT by djf (I'm not Islamophobic. But I am bombophobic. Same thing, I guess...)
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