There’s plenty of rough sex in the animal kingdom, but dinosaur copulation may have been so violent that it literally broke the spine of the female. Ironically, though, that’s wonderful news for ...

May 12 (UPI) --Can a paleontologist tell whether a dinosaur was male or female simply by studying the fossil remains? A new study suggests the task is quite difficult, and most likely impossible, for ...

Paleontologists studying tail fractures in hadrosaurs think they’ve found a key clue that could finally help tell female dinosaurs from males. This discovery, based on hundreds of healed spinal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In most animal species, males and females differ. This is true for people and other mammals, as well as many species of birds, ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of ...

It’s the seemingly basic question that has kept many a paleontologist up at night: How do we know which dinosaurs were male and which were female? For a number of years, paleontologists have suspected ...

Paleontologists have long wrestled with the challenge of identifying the genders of dinosaurs from the fossils they leave behind. Once the soft tissues like reproductive organs have decayed away, ...

How can researchers tell if male and female dinosaurs, like the stegosaur, were different? Susannah Maidment et al. & Natural History Museum, London, CC BY In most animal species, males and females ...

In most animal species, males and females differ. This is true for people and other mammals, as well as many species of birds, fish and reptiles. But what about dinosaurs? In 2015, I proposed that ...