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Paleontologists Have Reconstructed a Dinosaur’s Butthole – Mental Floss

The rear end of a ‘Psittacosaurus’ fossil was so well-preserved that scientists were able to reconstruct it. It even had a little poop in it.

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New discoveries await diligent paleontologists. For proof, look no further than Jakob Vinther, a scientist at the University of Bristol in England, who recently unveiled what might be the fields first example of a non-avian dinosaur butt.
The research, which was published in the journal Current Biology, offers a glimpse inside the backside of a psittacosaurus, a dog-sized dino whose fossilized remains managed to retain some semblance of anatomyenough for Vinther to digitally reconstruct its, uh,…

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