Posted on 04/30/2024 3:27:28 AM PDT by Jonty30
While we don't like to talk ill of the dead, new physiological analysis has found that the king of the dinosaurs was not so smart after all. It upends previous research that last year likened the brain and neuronal composition of the Tyrannosaurus rex to that of a primate. It's been a rough year or two for the long extinct dinosaur. First, we questioned their teeth, finding that those iconic chompers could very much have been smaller and hidden behind lips, and now an international team of paleontologists, behavioral scientists and neurologists have concluded that the T. rex wasn't smarter than your average lizard or crocodile. Why all the hate, science? The new study kicks dirt in the face of the 2023 findings that the dinosaur's neuron count was a direct indication of its intelligence. It proposed that this would indicate high cognitive skills that could be backed up by evidence of 'evolved' cognitive skills such as tool use. But when the scientists replicated the previous study's method, the results told a very different story.
(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...
What level of intelligence is required for an eating machine?
Ask the average teenage boy.
“Like reading a book for example “
No, they concluded it was only looking at the pictures.
Tyrannosauroids were around for almost 90 million years.
They were smart enough.
Hey mighty brontosaurus, don’t you have a lesson for us.
Said your rule would always last, and the lessons in your past.
You were built three stories high, say you would not hurt a fly.
If we explode the atom bomb, would they say that we were dumb.
We’re... walking in your footsteps...
Funny how they pontificate about an extinct dinosaur’s intelligence yet not a peep about the intelligence of today’s democrat voter given the the currently installed presidents romp on our hill.???
Nor do they talk of his.
Bang a gong baby!
Just how smart did people think he was? On a scale of Kamala Harris to Hunter Biden.
In reality science doesn’t have a clue how smart or dumb a T Rex was. It’s all theory.
They existed and they thrived for millions of years. Man hasn’t been around that long and they’ve screwed pretty much everything up. Who was smarter?
Oh, so then it was reading Playboy.
🤓
Original glam rock
Marc Bolan T-Rex live
Jeepster 1972
https://youtu.be/VPHKVWCxHtI?si=F96aCSSwQIiyKzv1
Same "unscientific" minds computing Climate Change?
“scientists”
LOL!
T. Rex only needed to be as smart as, say, a housecat.
I’m curious about the teeth however. There are many fossilized remains. And in a skull up to 5 ft. long, a 6” or more tooth is not proportionately oversize, a point made here:
https://www.dogonews.com/2023/5/11/the-t-rexs-ferocious-teeth-may-have-been-hidden-by-lips
The lips part makes sense though.
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