Could Stegosaurus have been a super smart dinosaur?
I find that really hard to believe. I used to be aware of a sauropod which apparently had such a huge body and tiny head, the electrical impulses from the tail to the brain (say, if a predator dinosaur was making a meal out of it’s tail) would take so long to reach the head that it evolved a second brain somewhere in it’s lower back. I tend to recall that such a discovery was thwarted relatively recently when the supposed second brain was merely tissue mass in the lower spine. I would take some convincing to believe these creatures had any intelligence other than inherited basic survival instincts.
