Here is a digital reconstruction of the Passitacosaurus dinosaur that explains how the cloacal vent can be used for signaling during mating.
Bob Nichols / Paleocreation.com 2020
Paleontologists spend their entire academic career studying the anatomy of dinosaurs. Now a team of scientists from the University of Bristol has finally described in detail the closet or vent of a dinosaur, which is used to attract species from mating to defecation and urination (or less scientifically, the trade of Jack-L-All-Buthol).
In a new study published in the Current Biology Journal on Tuesday, scientists revealed several theories about the cloacal vent on a dog-sized dinosaur called the dog-sized dinosaur, relative to the early tricerotops of the Cretaceous era, which lived about 120 million years ago. .
“I took note of the cloaca many years ago after recreating the color patterns of these dinosaurs using fossil fossils on display at the Sankenberg Museum in Germany, which clearly preserves its skin and color patterns,” said Dr. Jacob Winters Prithvi of Bristol School University Said in a statement on Tuesday.
A closer look at the clock clo vent preserved in Sittakosorus.
Dr. Jacob Winth
“It took us a long time to finish it, because no one cared to compare the outer part of the closed mouth of a living animal, so it was a largely uncontested area,” Winther added.
The researchers said that the cloaca of dinosaurs has the same features as alligators and cloaca on crocodiles. Dino’s outer cloak area was also potentially colored. These pigments can be used to attract a partner, just like a baboon uses them.
“We’ve found that vents look different in many different groups of tetrapods, but in most cases, it doesn’t tell you much about the species of the animal.” Said Diane Kelly of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “Those special features are pulled inside the clock, and unfortunately, it’s not preserved in this relic.”
It’s not just the appearance of Dino’s vent that caught the spouse’s attention, but also his smell. Large, colored lobes on either side of the cloaca may also contain muscular scent glands to attract the partner’s attention.
Sanchezburg Museum Natural Sweetacosaurus specimen of Natural History – Preservation of skin and pigment patterns and the first, and only known, Clock ac vent.
Jacob Winter, University of Bristol and Bob Nichols / PaleoCreation.com 2020
Knowing that at least some dinosaurs were signaling to each other, paleo-artists are now encouraged to speculate about a variety of rational interactions during dinosaur court proceedings, said pellao-artist and study artist Robert Nichols in a statement.
“It’s a game-changer!”
