Thursday, May 27, 2010

More on the brain

Pterosaurs are like modern birds right down to the details:
http://digimorph.org/specimens/Anhanguera_santanae/Witmer_02048.pdf
"We use the avian equation to estimate the pterosaur EQs because pterosaur brains filled the endocranial cavity (as in birds, but unlike in reptiles)."
(Lawrence M. Witmer1, Sankar Chatterjee2, Jonathan Franzosa3 & Timothy Rowe3)

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