Paleontologists believe that the brain belonged to a large herbivorous animal.
Discovered in the South of England over 10 years ago brown stone was the first in the history of science a sample of the fossilized brain of a dinosaur, scientists have confirmed.
The fossil is unusually well preserved because the dinosaur head after his death immediately ended up in the pond with high levels of acidity and low oxygen content (in the case that the animal drowned in the swamp or was the victim of rapid flooding).
Paleontologists believe that the brain belonged to a large herbivorous animal, such as iguanodon lived in the lower Cretaceous period. The age of fossils estimated at more than 130 million years.
“The chances of saving brain tissue is incredibly small, so the discovery of this copy is amazing” – quotes Reuters the scientist Alex Liu, who worked on the identification of fossils.
Fossilized brain was found by a fossil hunter in Sussex in 2004. It has some similarities with the brain of modern birds and crocodiles.
