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A new study on dinosaur hearing

Started by Logo7, June 07, 2019, 02:53:53 AM

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June 07, 2019, 02:53:53 AM
A new study by researchers from the University of Maryland and the Technical University of Munich utilized alligators to help determine how dinosaurs might have heard sounds. The study determined that, like birds, alligators are able to generate a "neural map" in their brain to chart the location of a specific sound. The new study suggests that, if both birds and crocodilians can generate these "neural maps", then phylogenetic bracketing suggests that dinosaurs also heard sounds through this method. Here is a link to the paper describing this study.

Paper (abstract only): http://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/20/3882
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