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No Really, Scientists Reconstructed a Dinosaur’s Butthole – Nerdist
Researchers have reconstructed, for the first time ever, one example of the orifice dinosaurs used to mate, urinate, and defecate—a.k.a. its butthole.

A team of researchers has just announced the first-ever “reconstruction” of a psittacosaurus’s cloaca; that is, the dinosaur’s all-purpose hole used for urinating, defecating, mating, and laying eggs. The researchers also say the dinosaur’s cloaca may have had large lobes around it, which would’ve harbored “musky” scent glands. (Talk about an orifice!)
Boing Boing picked up on the fresh dino reconstruction, which the researchers described in a paper published in the journal, Current Biology. The…
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