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The suspense is killing me: Did that T-rex have a pee-pee or not??

According to an e-mail from the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, we'll be told at 2 p.m. tomorrow the sex of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, when a paper by Dr. Mary H. Schweitzer, Assistant Curator of Paleontology at the museum and a professor at N.C. State (and two other researchers) is officially published by Science magazine.

Me? I'll be out of the office. Y'all are on your own.

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anonyMoses said:

This is not something you should make fun of, nixdat, of which you should make fun. We maybe be talking about all male lifeforms suddenly coming down with megapenis envy (bigus tallywhackerus). And cross that with all the new cases of short man's complex, and you've got a catastrophe in your hands. Oops. I didn't say "in", did I?

I shant wait around for the unveiling.

Thanks for bringing a little sunlight into a cloudy day.

Dave

anonymoses said:

Were I an editor, I would have caught the egregious "We maybe be talking" error. But noooo! I've got to make a fool out of myself!
(As if the content didn't do that already.)

I stand er...corrected.

lld said:

Hmmm. Seems I read an article and saw photos a year of so ago that already solved that riddle.
Believe it was Science or Discovery magazine, but then again, perhaps it was something I saw online.
Thanks for the fun.
lld

Mark Binker said:

It's a girl:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists studying the mighty T. rex may have found a way to tell a she rex from a he rex.
The dinosaurs knew the difference, of course.
But scientists, with only fossilized bones to work from, have had little to go on as far as knowing which specimen was a male and which was a female.
Now, a team led by Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University reports finding a layer of medullary bone inside the leg bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana.
Medullary bone is a calcium-rich layer that develops in the long bones of birds during the egg-laying process. It provides a ready supply of calcium to form eggshells.
The presence inside this T. rex's legs indicates that she was a female, Schweitzer said. The finding will enable researchers to determine the sex of at least some dinosaurs.
It also adds weight to the widespread belief that today's birds descended from dinosaurs.

Lex said:

Woo-hoo! Bubble-gum cigars all around. Now: What shall we name her?

So what do you give a museum for a T-rex baby shower?

Lilly said:

Lets call her "Lilly". :)

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