You might imagine that the spinosaur mind was one-of-a-kind. Trampling through the British Isles as many as 125 million years ago, it makes sense to think that these dinosaurs had something special swirling around inside their heads. But a paper published in the Journal of Anatomy says otherwise.
According to the paper, a team of researchers recently reconstructed the basic brain structure of two spinosaur specimens based off the shape and size of their braincases. And despite the fact that these fossil individuals would’ve lived strange, semi-aquatic lives when they were alive, their brains weren’t all that different from those of their terrestrial peers, whose lifestyles weren’t so specialized.
Long ago, when the British Isles were almost completely covered with lagoons and lakes, lived a taxon of theropod dinosaurs with short arms, long legs and looming, sail-like structures along their spines. Lurking in the shallows in search of their food, ...
