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How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs and the application of neuron count estimates in palaeontological research

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 12, Page 3685-3716, December 2024.
Abstract Recent years have seen increasing scientific interest in whether neuron counts can act as correlates of diverse biological phenomena. Lately, Herculano‐Houzel (2023) argued that fossil endocasts and comparative neurological data from extant sauropsids allow to reconstruct telencephalic neuron counts in Mesozoic dinosaurs and pterosaurs, which ...
Kai R. Caspar   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ornithopod Craniodental Remains from the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia

open access: yes, 2023
Ornithopods are a clade of dinosaurs generally accepted to include non-iguanodontian ornithopods, non-hadrosaurid iguanodontians, and hadrosaurids. While acknowledging the phylogenetic placement of traditional non-iguanodontian ornithopods, or ‘basal ...
Devereaux, Olivia Sarah   +3 more
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What do brain endocasts tell us? A comparative analysis of the accuracy of sulcal identification by experts and perspectives in palaeoanthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Palaeoneurology is a complex field as the object of study, the brain, does not fossilize. Studies rely therefore on the (brain) endocranial cast (often named endocast), the only available and reliable proxy for brain shape, size and details of surface ...
Balzeau, Antoine   +22 more
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The evolution of avian intelligence and sensory capabilities: the fossil evidence

open access: yes, 2017
Crocodiles and birds are the only living representatives of Archosauria, a once diverse clade of vertebrates that mastered terrestrial, aerial and aquatic environments during the Mesozoic.
Walsh, Stig A   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Endocast of the Late Triassic (Carnian) dinosaur Saturnalia tupiniquim: implications for the evolution of brain tissue in Sauropodomorpha

open access: yes, 2018
The evolutionary history of dinosaurs might date back to the fist stages of the Triassic (c. 250– 240 Ma), but the oldest unequivocal records of the group come from Late Triassic (Carnian – c. 230 Ma) rocks of South America.
Oliver W M Rauhut   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Madness in Ancient Greek Tragedy: A Retrospective Medical Analysis of Heracles and Medea

open access: yes
Madness in ancient Greek tragedy emerges as both narrative device and anthropological marker. Figures like Heracles and Medea embody extreme forms of psychic disintegration, which, when reread through the lens of palaeomedicine and palaeoneurology ...
Galassi F. M., Varotto E.
core   +1 more source

Endocranial Casts of Pre-Mammalian Therapsids Reveal an Unexpected Neurological Diversity at the Deep Evolutionary Root of Mammals

open access: yes, 2017
The origin and evolution of the mammalian brain has long been the focus of scientific enquiry. Conversely, little research has focused on the palaeoneurology of the stem group of Mammaliaformes, the Permian and Triassic non-mammaliaform Therapsida (NMT).
Paul R. Manger   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Directions in palaeoneurology

open access: yes, 2011
This collection of papers honours Dr Angela C Milner and her contribution to vertebrate palaeontology, with articles authored by many of her colleagues and former students. These articles encompass studies on the earliest four-legged vertebrates, lizards,
Knoll, Monja A, Walsh, Stig A
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A Pleistocene Fight Club revealed by the palaeobiological study of the Dama-like deer record from Pantalla (Italy). [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2022
Cherin M   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fossil brains provide evidence of underwater feeding in early seals. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Biol, 2023
Lyras GA   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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