{"id":149583,"date":"2022-01-14T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=149583"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:19:07","slug":"fossilised-butthole-gives-insight-into-dinosaur-sex-including-mating-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/fossilised-butthole-gives-insight-into-dinosaur-sex-including-mating-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fossilised butthole&#8217; gives insight into dinosaur sex including mating signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25945289.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/3_SWNS_DINO_SEX_001.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss a thing by getting the <b>Daily Star&#8217;s biggest headlines<\/b> straight to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists have discovered some of the secrets of dinosaur sex after coming across some unusually well-preserved private parts. <\/p>\n<p>Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist working at the University of Bristol, found what has been called a &apos;dinosaur butthole&apos; while working with the Natural History Museum in Senckenberg, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The shape and colour of the body part revealed how the 120-million-year-old dinosaur may have given off their mating calls. <\/p>\n<p>Vinther said: &quot;I was thinking, I wonder if anybody has ever found a dinosaur cloaca before?&quot;<\/p>\n<p> A cloaca is an opening common to non-mammal vertebrates that operates as a one-size-fits-all funnel for sex, pooping, urination and reproduction, reports Popsci. <\/p>\n<p>In a study published recently, paleoartist Robert Nicholls and biologist Diane A. Kelly were able to three-dimensionally reconstruct a cloaca.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25945281.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/2_SWNS_DINO_SEX_003.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The reconstruction was able to describe what Vinther says is the only non-avian dinosaur cloaca known to be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>He says the cloaca is &quot;more than just a butthole,&quot; adding that it is &quot;the Swiss army knife of back ends.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For help with their work, Vinther says the study authors looked to the wide-ranging cloaca of other land-dwelling vertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>The dinosaur owner of this particular cloaca is an approximately 120 million-year-old Psittacosaurus from what is now the Liaoning province in northeastern China.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25945414.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/2_SWNS_DINO_SEX_002.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article25944000.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_JS254982085_Main.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fuming tenant facing eviction gets revenge by blowing up his landlord&apos;s flat<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About the size of a labrador, the Psittacosaurus was surprisingly cute for a dinosaur, Vinther says, with scaly horns on either side of its flat, E.T.-like face.<\/p>\n<p>The dinosaur&apos;s cloaca appears to have a distinct colour, which could have been used to signal for mates, as is sometimes the case for birds.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Diane Kelly, an expert in the evolution of copulatory systems, said: &quot;The shape and colour of the tissue that&apos;s preserved suggests that these animals might have used both odour and visual signals to interact with other members of their species.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> Vinther notes that these revelations aren&apos;t &quot;going to cure cancer,&quot; 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