So I built a stegosaurus model kit, which included some factoids in the instructions. One of these factoids was that stegosaurs are not believed to have had a secondary brain in the hips to help them control their rear half after all. That was wild to me, since the whole stegosaurs and sauropods with their tiny heads needing a secondary brain for their huge bodies was commonly accepted back when I was a kid. So I looked it up, and indeed, the current hypothesis is that the cavity that the second brain was thought to occupy is used for a thing called a glycogen body. But what exactly does a glycogen body do? We’ll get back to you on that, apparently.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    4 个月前

    The explanation was that the response time if a Brontosaurus got its tail messed with (an anvil dropped on it)

    If a Brontosaurus needed to react to an anvil being dropped on its tail then I have more important questions.

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      4 个月前

      Acme anvil, acme time machine… The knowledge that birds evolved from dinosaurs…

      The answer is so obvious I’m glad you didn’t debase either of us by asking the question