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Dinosaurs may have ‘flashed’ each other with their bottoms, newly discovered fossil shows – The Conversation UK
A reconstruction of a dinosaur’s back passage reveals it may have been used for visual communication.
Dinosaur fossils have always amazed with their horns and spikes, enchanting us with elongated necks and foot-long teeth. But less attention has been paid to the dinosaur derriere for reasons of taste, maybe, but also because its difficult to find a well-preserved bottom in the fossil record of our Mesozoic friends.
But a chance encounter at a German museum has helped us understand the story behind one dinosaurs behind, revealing that the creatures back opening might have been flashed for communicative…
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