NEW DELHI: Dinosaurs were “more like smart giant crocodiles” but not as intelligent as monkeys as an earlier study had found, according to new research.
In a study published in January 2023, neuroscientist and author Suzana Herculano-Houzel of Vanderbilt University, US, had said that brains of theropod dinosaurs, a species of which is T. rex, had neurons comparable to those in the brains of monkeys and baboons.
Dinosaurs like T. rex, or Tyrannosaurus rex, had an exceptionally high number of neurons, “which would make these animals not only giant but also long-lived and endowed with flexible cognition, and thus even more magnificent predators than previously thought,” the author wrote in the study published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
