Do the tallest dinosaurs have the smallest brains?

Size doesnt matter
Scientists have discovered that even the most advanced members of the largest group of dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth still had relatively tiny brains, not more than 3 inches in size.
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Which dinosaurs had the smallest brain?

Stegosaurus: the dinosaur with the smallest brain.
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What size brain did dinosaurs have?

While the dinosaurs grew bigger, their brains didn't keep up. By the time the sauropods, like brontosaurus, reached 100 tons and 110 feet long, their brains were only the size of tennis balls.
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What dinosaur has the smallest brain to body ratio?

Stegosaurus has a reputation for having a small brain and one of the lowest-brain-to-body ratios among dinosaurs. "The brain of Stegosaurus was long thought to be the size of a walnut," said armored dinosaur expert Kenneth Carpenter, director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Utah.
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Which dinosaurs had the largest brain?

Troodontids (formerly Saurornithoidids) were remarkable in having the largest brain-to-body size ratio of all non-avian dinosaurs, possibly making them the most intelligent dinosaurs on a level with the smartest birds.
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Did T. rex have a small brain?

Although the ratio of brain size to body mass was very small for T. rex, it was larger than most other dinosaurs. T. rex's brain was larger than the human brain, but the cerebrum (the part of the brain that we use to think) was tiny.
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What animal has the smallest brain?

Scientists have finally located the smallest brain ever seen and it belongs to a ragworm. This cousin of the humble earthworm has neurons very similar to those in the human brain despite being only the width of a human hair.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What was the least intelligent dinosaur?

Because of this incredibly disproportionate brain to body ratio, Stegosaurus has historically been known as the dumbest dinosaur, a fact that was seemingly backed up by a proposed “second brain” located around the animal's hip.
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What size was at Rex brain?

An adult Tyrannosaurus rex had a brain that weighed approximately 1 kilogramme, about half of the size of an adult humans but that does not mean that T. rex was half as smart as we are – the size of the body and the arrangement of the functions in the brain have to be considered.
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Which dinosaur is smartest?

Troodon had a large brain for its relatively small size and was probably among the smartest dinosaurs. Its brain is proportionally larger than those found in living reptiles, so the animal may have been as intelligent as modern birds, which are more similar in brain size.
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Which dinosaurs were intelligent?

The smartest ones are usually thought to be the troodons, bird-like dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period. They fit many of the requirements we usually look for in a technologically advanced species. Not only were they intelligent (based on the size of their brains), but they were very social.
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Would dinosaurs be intelligent?

Jurassic Park taught us that the T. Rex wasn't necessarily the most clever creature, but there are a number of reasons they didn't adapt to become smarter. They did! Dinosaurs evolved into modern birds and some of them are extremely intelligent.
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Is the T. rex brain the size of a walnut?

For example this brain from the sauropod Ampelosaurus (Links to an external site.) is just about the size of a walnut (shown for comparison). This makes sense since T-Rex's were carnivores and carnivores tend to have bigger brains that allow them to hunt.
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Which dinosaur had a brain the size of a walnut?

It is often said that Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut - in fact it was more like the size of a lime, or a dog's brain, but still relatively small for a dinosaur that grew up to nine metres long.
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What animal has the largest brain?

Fun Facts. The sperm whale has the biggest brain of any animal species, weighing up to 20 pounds (7 to 9 kilograms). Larger brains don't necessarily make a smarter mammal. But as mammals evolved, many groups, from Primates to Carnivora, have shown independent increases in brain size.
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What is the deadliest dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus rex

The “king of the tyrant lizards” will always be one of the scariest and deadliest dinosaurs around with a bite force three times that of a great white shark - making it the strongest bite force of any land animal that has ever lived.
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What is the ugliest dinosaur?

The 10 Ugliest Dinosaurs
  • of 10. Hippodraco. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Isisaurus. Dmitri Bogdanov. ...
  • of 10. Jeyawati. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Masiakasaurus. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Nigersaurus. Australian Museum. ...
  • of 10. Pegomastax. Pegomastax (Tyler Keillor). ...
  • of 10. Suzhousaurus. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 10. Tianyulong. Nobu Tamura.
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What dinosaur could jump the highest?

Scientists estimate that a Velociraptor could jump as high as 10 feet (3 meters) straight in the air. Velociraptor, like other dromaeosaurids, had two large hand-like appendages with three curved claws. The claws were used the same way as birds of prey use talons—as hooks to keep victims from escaping.
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What animal has 25000 teeth?

Snails: Even though their mouths are no larger than the head of a pin, they can have over 25,000 teeth over a lifetime – which are located on the tongue and continually lost and replaced like a shark!
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What animal never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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Which animal has no brain and heart?

Jellyfish is an animal that has no brain or even a heart.
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