The article consistently says that there’s no brain back there, but then continuously says that we don’t know what filled the gap. I’m finding it a very unconvincing way to debunk someone’s hypothesis.
However, they have no idea what the hell it does in birds, so even less so what it'd do in a dinosaur.
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(genuinely curious, I'm certainly no biologist)