Washington: How intelligent was the famous bloodthirsty dinosaur T-Rex of ancient times? Scientists have shed some light on this.
Neuroscientist Susanna Herculanohuzel found out in the examination that there are 3 billion 3 million neurons (nerve cells) in the front part of the brain of this terrible animal.
Susanna said that this discovery seems to have put the brain power of T-Rex on par with that of today’s great apes, baboons.
Susanna suggested that primitive hunter-gatherers had the mental hardware to develop culture and make tools, but this claim has drawn further skepticism. A new set of studies has now shown that even very low neuron counts are sufficient.
The new research shows that the frontal lobes of dinosaurs had about 360 million neurons.
Furthermore, the forebrain is the part of the brain that plays a role in feeling, thinking and coordinating movement. If this is true, this reduced number of neurons would bring T. rex to the mental level of baboons, not baboons.
