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20. Back-breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs
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- The Fossil Files
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- Jan 13, 2026
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Summary
Having large body sizes conferred all sorts of advantages on dinosaurs, but it potentially made breeding a bit complicated. This week we take a look at some weird pathologies in fossil hadrosaurs (duck billed dinosaurs and friends) and what they might tell us about their amourous habits - do broken backs provide evidence of rough housing in the bedroom? This week's paper is "Deciphering causes and behaviors: A recurrent pattern of tail injuries in hadrosaurid dinosaurs" by Filippo Bertozzo and colleagues, published in IScience November 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113739 The widescreen artwork is by Troco.