Giant Apex Theropods Left Proof Of Mating Dances In Colorado - Were They Left By Acrocanthosaurus?

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One of the ways we know dinosaurs weren’t tail-dragging freaks, is due to the complete lack of fossilized tail drag marks present with any fossil trackway. So, how do we know the dinosaurs displayed to one another when they felt the itch? There is no direct evidence of the act of courtship displays – it’s all inference based on anatomy and evolutionary history. However, there are four fossil track sites found in Colorado that just might reveal the first and only of its kind, overturning that old way of thinking.
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Lockley, M., McCrea, R., Buckley, L. et al. Theropod courtship: large scale physical evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs. Sci Rep 6,https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18952.1038/srep18952

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