Tag: gender
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PBS Eons: Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
PBS Eons has a new episode over on Youtube. How do you hold a gender reveal for dinosaurs. While we think we know a lot about dinosaurs – like how they moved and what they ate – for a long time, we haven’t been able to ID one seemingly basic thing about their biology… Which…
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NY Times: Male Mammoths Died in ‘Silly Ways’ More Often Than Females, Study Finds
The NY Times has a story about a study which details how Male Mammoths may have lived and died. The study, published last week in the journal Current Biology, found that roughly two-thirds of the fossilized Mammoth specimens were male. The authors speculate that the skewed sex-ratio was due to risk behavior by young males…
