Author: Olivia Pocobelli

For decades, scientists have found it nearly impossible to distinguish male and female dinosaur fossils. Sexual dimorphism describes how two sexes of a species differ in physical traits (Ralls and Mesnick 2009). Though sexual dimorphism has been claimed in non-avian, extinct dinosaurs, the hypothesis lacked concrete evidence (Saitta et al. 2020; Canoville et al. 2021;…