Dinosaur Hormones Fossil Search Underway

Though you may have seen a dinosaur skeleton in a museum with a presumably “male” or “female” name, it is not yet known how to reliably reveal the sex of a given set of fossils.

Saitta and his team believe that accessing specific dinosaur hormones in fossils could be the link to solving the mystery. 

But first, Saitta had to know if dinosaur sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone would even make it through the process of fossilization, much less millions of years in the Earth’s soil.

This is where his research began. Understanding more about the sex of various dinosaur…