Have paleontologists found a way to tell the gender of a dinosaur? Based on some sexual kinks, preserved in their fossilized bones for over 66 million years, it’s a distinct possibility

New research published by a team of international paleontologists makes the case that a pattern of similar skeletal clues indicate they’ve found the remains of female hadrosaurs. The clues were hundreds of tail vertebrae, broken in the same way in several specimens of several different species.

It seems that while male dinosaurs got some tail, they might have broken some tails.

“We imply that they're mating injuries, which would imply that all the ones that bear those injuries should be female,” said Denver Fowler, curator of the Dickinson Museum Center in North Dakota and one of the contributors to

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