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Canny as a crocodile but dumber than a baboon — new research ponders T. rex's brain power
In December 2022, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel published a paper that caused an uproar in the dinosaur world. After analyzing previous research on fossilized ...
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T. rex wasn’t that smart after all. Its intelligence was more on par with a large crocodile
Perhaps a more realistic neuron count hovers around 250 million, which is about as many neurons as the cat brain, a much smaller species. T. rex was probably more like a giant crocodile in ...