Farting dinosaurs (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, May 06, 2012, 15:53 (4583 days ago) @ David Turell

Another article in today's Sunday Times reports on research by Professor Graeme Ruxton (St Andrews U.) and David Wilkinson (Liverpool John Moores U.) which suggests that dinosaurs may have contributed to their own extinction by burping and farting such quantities of methane that they caused disastrous global warming. -I can top this. fMRI's demonstrate blood flow, not thoughts. Now we have fMRI dogs and the bozos who need grants are studying dog brain fMRI scans.-Quote from the breathless report:-"The researchers aim to decode the mental processes of dogs by recording which areas of their brains are activated by various stimuli. Ultimately, they hope to get at questions like: Do dogs have empathy? Do they know when their owners are happy or sad? How much language do they really understand?"-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120504110504.htm-Poodles can learn up to 200 words, known fact! Perhaps they should decode dog farts. More substance than brain scans.