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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Dinosaurs / Sex Today's Dinosaur News

Posted by Mary Traverse on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM

Happy Valentine's Day, dino-lovers! You should head on over to Dinosaur Tracking, Smithsonian Magazine's dinosaur blog, and check out Brian Switek's series on dinosaur sex! Hot hot dino-on-dino action!!!

Exactly how dinosaurs got it on has inspired no small amount of speculation. The largest dinosaurs of all, the sauropods, have been especially perplexing. We often say that these dinosaurs “shook the earth” with their footsteps, but did they also make the bed rock with their lovemaking? (I apologize for that joke, and will keep the geology puns to a minimum. Promise.)

Don't ever apologize for puns, Brian!

Direct links to the posts:
How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?
Sex and Dinosaur Necks
Intimate Secrets of Dinosaur Lives
The Anatomy of Dinosaur Sex

In other dinosaur romance, check out these giant kissing dinosaurs in Beijing! Awwwwwww.

h/t to Laura for the dino-sex stories! Have a hot dinosaur news tip? Send it to dinosaurs@thestranger.com

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I was watching the show Ancient Aliens and started thinking about dinosaurs.

Really, they seem to me to be impossible.

Take trees. Think of the tallest trees. Were they as tall as dinosaurs? It seems that a being taller than trees by 40 or 50 feet would find it impossible to walk around.

For a human, it would be like having 2 foot high poles in the ground everywhere.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 14, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Mmmm... Dinosaur bones!

Posted by dangerkitty5000

on February 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM

@1 A lot of trees were more like palm fronds.

Depended on where they were. Our images of the past are created by what Did Get Fossilized, so we imagine it to be full of trees (coal/shale/etc imprints) but a lot of squishy things and areas where not much survived don't "appear" - they were there, but the quantity levels and actual sizes can't be extrapolated by the few fragments that fossilized or were preserved in amber or ice or lakebeds.

Posted by Will in Seattle