So I built a stegosaurus model kit, which included some factoids in the instructions. One of these factoids was that stegosaurs are not believed to have had a secondary brain in the hips to help them control their rear half after all. That was wild to me, since the whole stegosaurs and sauropods with their tiny heads needing a secondary brain for their huge bodies was commonly accepted back when I was a kid. So I looked it up, and indeed, the current hypothesis is that the cavity that the second brain was thought to occupy is used for a thing called a glycogen body. But what exactly does a glycogen body do? We’ll get back to you on that, apparently.

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      The entire website is like that. Except nearly every article is

      "These are the only 27 animals that have blue eyes!

      Humans are the only species with blue eyes

      Other species with blue eyes include the Siberian Huskie, the Great Dane, and the Dalmatian