Photo: Lu Junchang LONDON - A fossil pterosaurs (dinosaurs aviator type) and their eggs were found in China.
This discovery could identify the gender of the dinosaur if it is female. These results also allow the researchers could identify the sex of dinosaurs for the first time. Similarly, as quoted by BBC News, Friday (21/01/2011).
Scientists say in Science Magazine that gender differences in pterosaurs is on ornaments on her head. Jantanlah sex which has the ornaments on the head.
The fossil was discovered by Lu and his colleagues Junchang in Liaoning Province in China. The province in recent years many dinosaur fossils.
Fossils of pterosaurs were from the genus Darwinopterus. Based on fossil findings, at the bottom of the frame was also found fossilized dinosaur eggs, dinosaur is estimated it will soon lay eggs when she died.
The scientists speculate that dinosaurs may have fallen from the sky, is seen from his left arm broken bone.
This fossil is estimated to 160 million years old.
'The most important of this invention is now we can distinguish the gender of the pterosaurs. For females have greater hip bone and do not have bone ornaments in the head, while the male has a bone ornament on his head and has a small pelvis, 'said David Unwim, a pelaeobiolog from the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
This conclusion was drawn because of pterosaur fossil found in the eggs, which have also minus big butt bone ornaments on his head, unlike other types of Darwinopterus.
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