Did male and female dinosaurs differ? A new statistical technique is helping answer the question
- Written by Evan Thomas Saitta, Postdoctoral Scholar in Paleontology, University of Chicago
How can researchers tell if male and female dinosaurs, like the stegosaur, were different?Susannah Maidment et al. & Natural History Museum, London, CC BYIn most animal species, males and females differ. This is true for people and other mammals, as well as many species of birds, fish and reptiles. But what about dinosaurs? In 2015, I proposed...