But we do have to ask ourselves, exactly how brainy were the saurornithoidids, and other nonavian maniraptors? True that an avian grade telencephalon, appears only in these derived coelurosaurs.

But they were at the low end of modern birds: like palaeognaths and galliforms, rather than anseriforms or neoavians. Not likely to be as smart as the accipitrids.

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If you're looking for inspiration for space aliens, forget humans; dinosaurs, birds, and other archosaurs are rich and barely tapped veins.

Read more at my blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2021/09/06/forget-humanoid-aliens-try-dinosaur-aliens/

This post's featured image is "Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son" by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1780s).

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