Dinosaur Pr0n!
Someone on talk.origins asked how dinosaurs had sex. One of the replies pointed to
this Straight Dope column, which mentions
a painting by Luis Rey of carnotaurs having sex, which I’ve reproduced here for your enjoyment and edification. (See also this article in Cosmos.)
Apparently the late paleontologist Beverly Halstead did some research in the area of dinosaur sex, but apparently he couldn’t come up with anything conclusive. A major problem is that animals’ naughty bits also tend to be soft bits, which means they don’t fossilize easily, so we’re not sure what dinosaurs’ reproductive organs looked like. The best guess I’ve seen is that, like birds, they had a cloaca, basically an all-purpose rear orifice for eliminating urine and feces, laying eggs, and emitting sperm. So most likely dinosaurs didn’t distinguish between “regular” sex and anal sex.
(Update: PZ Myers informs me that like Carol, Chris, and Leslie, Beverly is a man’s name. Thanks for the correction.)
November 9th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Beverly Halstead was a he, by the way.
November 10th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Friday Ark #112
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? We add boarder…
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 am
“So most likely dinosaurs didn’t distinguish between “regular” sex and anal sex.” Backdoor dino-action. What could they expect except a meteorite from God and extinction? Ptrodactyls. Beats a post coital cigarette.
November 23rd, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Did the earth move for you too?
November 30th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
sexy pics you got there
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
This is just too funny!! Whats with all the birds…. its really weird because every time I have sex thousands of birds fly over my tent! I get confused whether its cum or bird shit on my fathers back.
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I’m pretty sure those are pterosaurs (or some other species of flying dinosaur), not birds. As far as I can tell, they don’t seem to have feathered wings.
Hope that helps. ‘Cos I agree, having hundreds of birds fly overhead at the moment of climax would be weird.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Curtis and Traci:
Bwaaaaa?