Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

When you only have fossils, how do you know if a dinosaur is female or male?

Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur? Eons

Premiered February 20, 2024
Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

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 are males and which are females?

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Eons

Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

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