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Dinosaur fossil from China shows how they mated – and how they went to the toilet – 7NEWS.com.au
The fossil is so well preserved that it has offered an extraordinary insight into how dinosaurs may have procreated.
We know a lot about dinosaurs – what they looked like, what they ate and what killed them off – but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinosaurs in the act of mating.
However, a fossil from China of a Psittacosaurus is so well preserved that the opening the Labrador-size dinosaur used to pee, poop and reproduce is visible, allowing paleontologists to study it for the first time.
While it doesnt offer any concrete answers on how dinosaurs may have procreated, it does give some hints.
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