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Patrick Pester

T. rex relatives 'moonwalked' to attract mates, newfound dinosaur ‘mating arena' suggests

A photograph of dinosaur footprints on a rock surface at Dinosaur Ridge. .

Around 100 million years ago, male dinosaurs entered a "mating arena" in Colorado and danced their hearts out to attract females, a new study suggests.

Researchers uncovered a series of mating display scrapes preserved on the surface of rocks at Dinosaur Ridge in Jefferson County, Colorado. The state is known for dinosaur track sites, with previous studies suggesting that dinosaurs returned to these mating spots over successive breeding seasons.

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