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Mating Injuries: an Index to Identify Female Dinosaurs

Summary by DAILY SCIENCE
The paleontologists have shown traumatic lesions on the tail vertebrae in one of the most flourishing groups of dinosaurs: herbivorous hadrosaurids, better known as "dinosaurs with duck beaks", which were unintentionally caused during mating, "the weight of the male that can crush the female's back," explains Filippo Bertozzo, of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium and the main author of the study. "The analysis of these lesions c…
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The paleontologists have shown traumatic lesions on the tail vertebrae in one of the most flourishing groups of dinosaurs: herbivorous hadrosaurids, better known as "dinosaurs with duck beaks", which were unintentionally caused during mating, "the weight of the male that can crush the female's back," explains Filippo Bertozzo, of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium and the main author of the study. "The analysis of these lesions c…

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DAILY SCIENCE broke the news in on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
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