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T. Rex not a "clever girl" in new research #brain #brainevolution #trex #dinosaur #study #paleonuerology #cognition #jurassicpark

Whether Total Recall (1990) or Jurassic Park (1993), the “clever girl” line is iconic. While in Jurassic Park, it was applied to velociraptors, a 2022 study published in the The Journal of Comparative Neurology asserted that the Tyrannosaurus Rex, or T. Rex, had up to three billion neurons, equivalent to an intelligent primate such as a baboon, leading to the possibility that they could hunt in…