martes, 1 de diciembre de 2009

The creature with two brains



DID YOU KNOW?

that in some dinosaurs, the ganglion in the pelvis was so large relative to its brain in its head that it could almost be said to have two brains.

Stegosaurus, Late Jurassic, Morrison Formation, western USA. The largest stegosaur. It had an extremely small head for its size and an extremely small brain. It had a ganglion larger than the brain itself in the hip region to control the movement of the hindquarters. *The area for the spinal ganglion is a storage site for glycogen in birds, and may have been the same in stegosaurs.

http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/dinos/VPORNITHO.htm


Kinda like men in a way, eh?

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