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31Aug 2024 by Post

There Is No Known Evolutionary Rule for Animal Intelligence

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Got a pet lizard? Good news. Scientists say it can be trained to do tasks and tricks. Source

28Jun 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

Big Bang, body plan, coordinated mutations, cosmology, Evolution, evolutionary clock, Fossil Friday, Intelligent Design, lizards, Najash rionegrina, paleontology, Patagoniav, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan

The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Source

13Oct 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Source

17Jan 2023 by Post

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. Source

27Mar 2022 by Post

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

animal behavior, babies, birds, brain size, brain volume, cognitive capacity, Cornell University, cuckoo, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, eggs, facial recognition, fairy wrens, intelligence, Intelligent Design, lemurs, lizards, Malurus cyaneus, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, Pavel Němec, penguins, reptiles, The Scientist

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Source

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