Phylogenetic bracketing suggests some dinosaurs' neuron density was equal to that of modern primates
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-phylogenetic-bracketing-dinosaurs-neuron-density.html
@tmbrown327 Wow. It makes sense though, they were the apex predators for a looong time.
@JLong That's what I was thinking. Millions of years to develop brains. Makes you wonder what another 65 million years would have done for their development.
@tmbrown327 Wild. By now they could even have mammal-ranches.
@JLong If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, I'm not even sure mammals would have gained a foothold. My guess is that reptilians would have filled every available niche with some version of a not-mammal.
@tmbrown327 Good point. I once read that the biggest mammal at that time was only as big as a house cat, and i would think that dinosaurs needed alot more calories than that. We started as herbivores but now we can eat almost anything that walks or swims.
@tmbrown327 l still can't believe that show really happened lol