Dinosaur sex secrets revealed

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It’s a question 240million years in the making, but a dinosaur expert says he has finally worked out how the terrible lizards had sex.

With many dinosaurs armed to the teeth with spiky tails and reinforced plating, the normal method of mating in the animal kingdom – mounting from behind – sounds not so much impractical as deadly.

Brian Switek, whose book My Beloved Brontosaurus is out in May, told the Sunday Times: ‘The females could not raise their tails because the bones at the top end were fused.

‘And some species had lethal spikes on their backs that would have been impossible to get past.’

Computerised recreations of how Kentrosaurus couples mated produced by Berlin’s Museum of Natural History concluded that the male dinosaurs faced castration if they mounted from behind.

These prickly dinosaurs must have had sex another way,’ said the museum’s Heinrich Mallison.

‘Perhaps the female lay down on her side and the male reared up to rest his torso over her. Other species would have used different positions, like backing up to each other.’

However, Professor John Long of South Australia’s Flinders University scorned the idea that dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus Rex could have mated in a missionary-style position.

‘A 33ft-long ankylosaurus, with spikes and armour, would have had a 6ft 6in penis to bridge the gap when close to a female,’ he said.

Professor Switek said the argument would go on until the search for the paleontological Holy Grail ended.

‘Soft tissues are seldom preserved during fossilisation, so we have never found a fossilised phallus, but doing so would solve many mysteries,’ he said.
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Perhaps the males had giant penises for eyes, or maybe the females had penises,
Perhaps they were like snails and shot darts at each other.
 
I wonder how one proposes this as a topic :confused:
 
Zewp said:
Please tell me you're not being serious. I have no desire to get into another debate with bible thumpers about how dinosaur fossils are supposedly fake.
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Actually that's a fact.
 
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Yes, satan conjured bones and fossils from air and buried them to deceive us, yadda yadda yadda. Please take your kooky beliefs to a thread where they're wanted etc etc.
 
Jesus Christ. Once again you link to some of the most retarded **** I've ever read. Skeletons made of rock? I actually felt some of my braincells commit suicide.

How about you come up with real evidence, then we can talk again. You claim dinosaurs being fake is fact, then you link to a forum post by someone who doesn't have an idea what she's talking about and whose statements are debunked in the very same thread and this is now supposedly proof that dinosaurs are fake.

Swa, honest question, are you mentally handicapped?
 
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Did you even read his comment before responding to it? It doesn't seem like you did.
 
And again you start with the deflections. Yes, I read his comment. He thinks dinosaur bones were made of rock, because he has no idea how fossilization works. His entire argument boils down to "it's not in the bible so it's not true" and therefore dinosaurs are a trick by satan. It's just more conjecture and speculation done by someone who doesn't even understand the subject they're debating. Pretty much like you.

So I ask you again, how is dinosaurs not existing a fact? Because I don't see any evidence for your assertions.
 
Zewp said:
And again you start with the deflections. Yes, I read his comment. He thinks dinosaur bones were made of rock, because he has no idea how fossilization works. His entire argument boils down to "it's not in the bible so it's not true" and therefore dinosaurs are a trick by satan. It's just more conjecture and speculation done by someone who doesn't even understand the subject they're debating. Pretty much like you.

So I ask you again, how is dinosaurs not existing a fact? Because I don't see any evidence for your assertions.
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Again... not that comment this comment.
 
So some unsubstantiated shepard's tale didn't make mention of dinosaurs so that means they didn't exist?

If that's your best argument against dinosaurs, then you're wasting my time.
 
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