You’ve probably seen dinosaur skeletons with “male” or “female” names in museums, but it’s not yet known how to reliably reveal the gender of a particular set of fossils. .
Saitta and his team believe that accessing specific dinosaur hormones in fossils could be the key to solving the mystery.
But Saitta first needed to know whether dinosaur sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone would survive the fossilization process, let alone persist for millions of years in Earth’s soil. .
This is where his research began. Understanding more about the sexes of different dinosaur skeletons could greatly help advance animal evolutionary research.