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Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

Season 6 Episode 14

While we think we know a lot about dinosaurs – like how they moved and what they ate – for a long time, we haven’t been able to ID one seemingly basic thing about their biology... Which are males and which are females?

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