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Originally Posted by Canmoore
The curator said that about the T-Rex? Must have been new or something. T-Rex had a brain larger than a humans... although compared to its body, it was very small.
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Well, I personally looked very closely at that skull. Where the brain case would be wasn't much bigger than an elongated slow-pitch soft ball. And the curator said the bone was about 2 inches thick.
Now, very large dinosaurs (such as Brontasaurus) had an extra brain at the base of their tail. Supposedly a secondary system to pull the tail out of the way if an Allosaur bit into it.
So maybe T-Rex had a larger brain near its - umm - annum. Which would make it an ancestor of the denizens in Washington.