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DiscussDo you think dinosaurs were smart?
« on: 28/10/2016 08:41:31 »
When most people think of dinosaurs they’ll likely conjure up images of the stabbing teeth of the T-rex or the cutting claws of a Velociraptor but what about the squishy bits of dinosaurs?  To find out more Liam Messin went to the University of Cambridge’s Earth Science Department to speak with Dr Alex Liu.  Alex was co-author of a recent study detailing a fossilised dinosaur brain. Liam started by asking Alex precisely what he and his colleagues have described in the paper…
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Re: DiscussDo you think dinosaur's were smart?
« Reply #1 on: 27/10/2016 21:18:39 »
This is a bit trivial but you've used an incorrect apostrophe in the title....

I didn't have time to listen to the show but I assume they weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They should have anticipated that asteroid.

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Re: DiscussDo you think dinosaur's were smart?
« Reply #2 on: 27/10/2016 23:27:24 »
They hung around for a zillion years, during which they learned to swim, fly, and act so impressively  that their films apparently don't need a plot.

In fact every current animal species is a testament to the dinosaurs' brilliant anticipation of the asteroid. Knowing they couldn't survive, they  evolved mammals, crocodiles and sharks that could, and finally fossilised themselves to remind subsequent generations of just how bloody clever they were.
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