![Paleontologist Steve Brusatte, pictured at the exhibition 'Dinosaurs of Patagonia' at the Science Museum in Barcelona.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/XK5OFMM65VG2ZKWHWFQNQ3A6OY.jpg?auth=cad5a48058bd8734eaec98fa8405d0385e594a5fc1ad9cedeb226059fd4e93a7&width=414&height=233&focal=3850%2C2520)
Steve Brusatte, paleontologist: ‘The most terrifying thing about the tyrannosaurus was not its jaws but its intelligence’
The American scientist, a rising star in the study of dinosaurs, talks to EL PAÍS about what would have happened to the species if they had not been wiped out by the asteroid