New study reveals patterns of dinosaur brain development
A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and
published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on
how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.
Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth
Sciences, together with Tom Hübner from the Niedersächsische Landesmuseum in
Hannover, Germany, picked the brains of 150 million year old dinosaurs.
The two palaeontologists studied different fossils of the
Jurassic dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki: a very young (juvenile)
individual of approximately three years
of age and a fully grown specimen of more than 12 years of age.