Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / November 2007

Some dinosaurs had two brains! Since nerve signals move from one part
of the body to another relatively slowly - it takes 1/50 of second to
notice a pain in your foot - and since these beasts were so large, a
second brain was at the base of the tail to maintain control of the

The article here regarding the occurance of intelligence amoung odd limbed
animals is of interest because the brain works with an odd number of
segments to solve problems.
See http://www.strevensathome.co.uk there is an article there called our