Shocking facts revealed about dinosaurs in research

New Delhi. According to new research, dinosaurs were “like smart giant crocodiles”, but not as intelligent as monkeys, as an earlier study had found. In a study published in January 2023, neuroscientist and author Susanna Herculano of Vanderbilt University in the US -Houzel said that theropod dinosaurs, one species of which is T. rex, had the same number of neurons in the brains as the brains of monkeys and baboons. .Tea. Dinosaurs such as T. rex, or Tyrannosaurus rex, had exceptionally high numbers of neurons, “which made these animals not only huge, but also long-lived and endowed with flexible cognition, and thus better than earlier were even more prolific hunters,” the authors write in the study published in the journal Comparative Neurology.