A recent news story in Live Science claims that even the largest dinosaurs still only had brains the size of tennis balls. Oh, but does size really matter? Perhaps if they were a specific brand of tennis ball, the dinosaur would be much sharper and quicker than other dinosaurs with the same-sized brain. And maybe if their brains had been Penn tennis balls, these particular dinosaurs would have become more adaptable and survived, rather than becoming extinct. (Some fake paleontologist could explain this stuff with appropriate pictures, etc.) And then we could see, as the ad’s tag, a dinosaur playing some pro tennis player who endorses Penn tennis balls, and the dinosaur could win a point, demonstrating how much more intelligent and able-bodied they would be with a Penn tennis ball brain.
Here’s the dinosaur tale:
