Dinosaurs, which lived over 60 million years ago, likely mated similarly to modern mammals with the males mounting females. Paleontologist Riley Black shares insights, highlighting that while evidence of reproductive organs is scarce, dinosaurs likely had phalluses or clitorises. Courtship behaviors akin to modern rituals, such as ground scratching, have been observed in fossilized mating grounds. Despite the lack of direct evidence, educated guesses provide a glimpse into how these prehistoric creatures might have engaged in reproductive behavior.
'For more than a century, paleontologists have wondered about how dinosaurs mated,' Ms Black says in a piece for Smithsonian Magazine.
Comparisons to living birds and crocodylians hint that individual dinosaurs usually had a phallus or a clitoris, although hard evidence of such structures has not yet been uncovered.
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