We have been here, in some kind of similar form for what, liberally let’s say five or six million years. That’s not a bad time scale to go from dumbish apes to what we are now, semi-dumbish apes.

So why then, given that they had the run of the world for hundreds of millions of years, were there no intelligent dinosaurs that reached the same kind of intelligence level that we have? Language, culture, building etc. All those hundreds of thousands of species and not one building or construction or sign of intelligence?

Tools for example, did they never even reach that level?

I asked myself this today when I saw the video on the BBC news site of the rooks using tools, and knowing that birds are supposedly the dinosaurs’ descendants, thought that perhaps these last vestiges of great dinosaurs are probably the most intelligent!

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