Multimillion-pound scientific research of a T. rex skeleton will be led by palaeontologists in Portsmouth. The University of ...
A cast of a T. rex skeleton on display outside the UC Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley. The original, a nearly complete skeleton excavated in 1990 from the badlands of ...
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 ...
Neuron counts usually correlate with brain size, so a T. Rex skeleton with a large brain cavity would have had a larger brain and therefore more neurons. Studies also suggest that the more ...
Herculano-Houzel proposed that dinosaurs like T. rex had an exceptionally high number of neurons–over 3 billion of them, or more than a baboon. This higher number of neurons could mean that they ...
rex skeleton will be led by palaeontologists ... for 5.55 million Swiss francs ($6.2m; £5m) at auction last year. The so-called "Team T. rex" in Portsmouth features anatomist Dr Nizar Ibrahim ...
A study published last year by Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel that evaluated the intelligence of Tyrannosaurus rex, focusing upon estimated brain size and the number of ...