Some Ground-Dwelling Dinos Had the Brains to Fly
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Reporting in Nature, researchers write that even non-flying relatives of Archaeopteryx had brains with the motor and visual capabilities necessary to take wing. Paleontologist Amy Balanoff reconstructed the dino brains by taking CT scans of fossilized skulls.
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Amy Balanoff
Amy Balanoff is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, New York.
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