We have many advantages dinosaurs didn’t, from our big brains to our adaptable bodies. But when it comes to sex, defecation, urination, and social signaling – dinosaurs managed to achieve a level of ...

Researchers have described in detail a dinosaur's cloacal or vent -- the all-purpose opening used for defecation, urination and breeding. For the first time ever, a team of scientists, led by the ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --For the first time, scientists have described the cloaca, or vent, of a dinosaur -- the all-purpose opening used for reproduction and waste disposal. Many mammals have distinct ...

Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs peed, pooed, and had sex for the first time, thanks to 130 million-year-old Chinese fossil. A study published in Current Biology detailed their findings on the ...

Despite the huge number of dinosaur fossils found, from bones to feathers, precious little exists in the fossil record to explain dinosaur defecation, urination, or copulation. Thankfully, all three ...

Experts from the UK and the US reconstructed the nether regions of Psittacosaurus, a Labrador dog-sized dinosaur, from around 145–100.5 million years ago. The fossil specimen was unearthed from ...

“Cloaca” is the Latin and English word for sewer or drain, and is also used to designate a cavity that encompasses the intestinal, genital and urinary tracts in birds and other “primitive mammals.” ...

This cloaca is more than 100 million years old, and it did a lot of work for this extinct species. By Katherine J. Wu The world’s oldest known all-purpose orifice sits in a fossil display case in the ...

No one predicted that January 2021 would be a banner month for dinosaur news. Last week an article in the scholarly journal Cretaceous Research revealed that dinosaur bones in Argentina may have ...

Paleontologists have found and described what may be the last dinosaur body part we didn’t know anything about – the butthole. Better yet, it seems like it might have evolved to look and yes, even ...

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For the first time ever, a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have described in detail a dinosaur's cloacal or vent - the all-purpose opening used for defecation, urination and ...