Researchers have poured cold water on the claim by a neuroscientist last year that T.Rex possessed 'baboon-like' cognitive abilities and was capable of problem-solving. The controversial claim ...

A new study debunks previous findings that the dinosaur's intelligence was similar to that of primates, finding instead that they're about as smart as modern-day crocodiles. Probably not, finds a ...

Information on dinosaur brains comes from mineral infillings of the brain cavity, termed endocasts, as well as the shapes of the cavities themselves. University of Alberta New research is throwing ...

An international team of scientists including two neurobiologists from the University of Alberta is weighing in on the latest controversy over the brain power of Tyrannosaurus rex. Dinosaurs have ...

In December 2022, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel published a paper that caused an uproar in the dinosaur world. After analyzing previous research on fossilized ...

Image of a T. rex skeletal cast at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany. T. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous (about 66 million years ago) and was exclusive to western North America ...

WASHINGTON — Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur — or any extinct animal — based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a ...

Sadly, for the T. rex, the team says the neuron count estimates were too high, also.Neuron count also correlates with body size – the bigger you are as a species, the more you're likely to have ...

Dinosaurs were likely as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys. Dinosaurs were as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys, as former research suggests. An international ...

Patty Hagen, the longtime executive director of downtown St. Louis’ T-Rex entrepreneurship and innovation center, died suddenly Tuesday. Hired as the organization's first executive director in ...