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.
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I’m just telling you what was in children’s dinosaur books from the 80s, based on your response of never having heard of it.
What the gap between children’s books and scientific consensus at the time was, couldn’t tell you.
I think this sits in the realm of history more than science. “What were people writing at the time?”
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