Palaeontology says some dinosaurs may have been capable of recognising individual faces – and the evidence behind that claim is harder to dismiss than you’d expect.
Imagine walking through a Late Cretaceous forest and having a two‑ton dinosaur look you in the eye and, instead of just seeing “food” or “threat,” actually recognising you as a specific individual. It sounds like pure science fiction, or the kind of emotional flourish that belongs in a movie, not in careful palaeontological discussion. Yet ...
