Not only does reconstructing a dino brain sound awesome, it’s also a step in understanding how these theropod dinosaurs interacted with their environment. The study was published February 13 in ...

After analyzing previous research on fossilized dinosaur brain cavities and the neuron counts of birds and other related living animals, Herculano-Houzel extrapolated that the fearsome ...

After analyzing previous research on fossilized dinosaur brain cavities and the neuron counts of birds and other related living animals, Herculano-Houzel extrapolated that the fearsome ...

The conventional wisdom long held that all dinosaurs had tiny brains and therefore unsophisticated behaviors. Perhaps the most amusing example of this view of dinosaur intelligence came from 19th ...

Scientists have recreated the brain of the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever known to have walked the Earth – using fossils discovered on the Isle of Wight and England’s south coast.

That means scientists looking for information about the brains of long-dead dinosaurs have to lean on the shape of the brain case and comparisons with living animals. Fortunately, the team had ...

Scans of the spinosaur dinosaurs Ceratosuchops and Baryonyx have revealed that the brains of these dinosaurs were more similar to their relatives than first realised. It may have been a case of matter ...

"Our key findings are that the brains of most dinosaurs, including T. rex, were comparable in relative size to those of living reptiles, such as crocodiles and alligators. Furthermore, their ...