Researchers use math to tell how lady dinosaurs were different from their male counterparts – ZME Science

Let’s face it, math isn’t the coolest subject out there — because nothing is cooler than dinosaurs. New research, however, is using the former to get a better understanding of the latter.
A Maiasaura skeleton at the Brussels Natural History Museum.Image credits Vladimír Socha via Wikimedia.
We refer to physical differences between males and females of the same species as ‘sexual dimorphism”. This doesn’t include differences in their reproductive organs or genetic material, which is what separa…

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