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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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

      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