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Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates

Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular nightclub back in the long-ago Cretaceous era. In those times, male dinosaurs, some similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, traveled to this once long-ago plain of tidal mud to preen and bust dance moves — even doing what the researchers described as a prehistoric moonwalk …

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T. rex relatives ‘moonwalked’ to attract mates, newfound dinosaur ‘mating arena’ suggests

T. rex relatives ‘moonwalked’ to attract mates, newfound dinosaur ‘mating arena’ suggests

Around 100 million years ago, male dinosaurs entered a “mating arena” in Colorado and danced their hearts out to attract females, a new study suggests. Researchers uncovered a series of mating display scrapes preserved on the surface of rocks at Dinosaur Ridge in Jefferson County, Colorado. The state is known for dinosaur track sites, with previous studies suggesting that dinosaurs …

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