1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says

Well I know i'm getting a bit sick of politics, dunno about anyone else, so I thought i'd change things up by talking about dinosaur cloacas.

Now, I know the headline says butthole, I just left it because it seemed funnier, but dinosaurs being...I dunno bird/reptile things...I dunno we class them as these days, either way, they have a cloaca, not a butthole. It's basically a universal hole used for all the things.

Anyway, paleontologists for the first time have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur cloaca. I know pretty exiciting eh?


Look at that fine specimen of a cloaca.

The cloaca has characteristics of both bird and reptile cloaca's but is different from the cloaca's of any living species today.

www.livescience.com...

The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent — for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying. 

The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.

Although this dinosaur's caboose shares some characteristics with the backsides of some living creatures, it's also a one-of-a-kind opening, the researchers found. "The anatomy is unique," study lead researcher Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. It doesn't quite look like the opening on birds, which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. It does look a bit like the back opening on a crocodile, he said, but it's different in some ways. "It's its own cloaca, shaped in its perfect, unique way," Vinther said.

The well-preserved booty belongs to the dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a bristly tailed, Labrador-size, horn-faced dinosaur, meaning it was a relative of Triceratops. Like its famous tri-horned cousin, Psittacosaurus lived during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 145 million to 65 million years ago. Previously, Vinther and his colleagues had studied this Psittacosaurus specimen, found in China, to determine its skin color, and at the time, he noted that its nether regions were preserved.



None of the reproductive soft tissues (like a penis) were preserved. So the researchers can't say whether the dinosaur was male or female. Even so, this dinosaur likely had copulatory sex, unlike some birds that bump butts when they do a "cloacal kiss" during reproduction, Vinther said.

To get a more complete picture of Psittacosaurus' cloacal vent, Kelly compared it with those of living land vertebrates. The vent is the opening, and the cloaca, which comes from the Latin word for "sewer," is the muscular chamber behind it. Based on its preserved anatomy, the opening could have been either horizontally oriented, like a bird's, or vertically oriented, like a crocodile cloaca, she said.

a reply to: dug88

Not gonna lie... when i came onto ATS today, "1st preserved dinosaur butthole" was not one of the topics i was guessing to come across, but here we are... haha

S&F for not being political topic!

a reply to: dug88

garth brooks is singing amazing grace while i‘m watching dinosaur buttholes.

Just another piece of evidence that shows dinosaurs are not millions of years old. Use your common sense on this one.

more proof dinosaurs aren't as old as we're told

Butt wait...theres more!

a reply to: dug88

Ex-stinked?

I read dinosaur butthole, and I thought Uncle Joe's pants had fallen off ...

Sorry.

This was indeed the very last thing I thought I would ever see anyone do a story on anywhere. But I guess it does go to show how much we've discovered from fossils, and if we can go gaga over coprolites, then I guess we needed to see the openings that produced them too.

originally posted by: oloufo
a reply to: dug88

garth brooks is singing amazing grace while i‘m watching dinosaur buttholes.

So you are watching Biden and the rest of the codgers.

a reply to: ketsuko

I read dinosaur butthole, and I thought Uncle Joe's pants had fallen off ...

Someone else woulda been starting that thread. I'd be to busy trying to burn my eyes out so i'd never have to see such a sight again.

originally posted by: jhn7537
a reply to: dug88

Not gonna lie... when i came onto ATS today, "1st preserved dinosaur butthole" was not one of the topics i was guessing to come across, but here we are... haha

S&F for not being political topic!

Thought you were making a crack at old Joe. But you didn't 👍😊


This post made me laugh WAAYYYYY harder than intended.

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Edit: ok this made me laugh pretty hard too.

originally posted by: IAMTAT

Ex-stinked?

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Butt the joke stimulus pork question it now answers is why. I can sleep now. Sigh of relief. 😥

Smart toilet' grant flushes $6.9M away, Rand Paul says

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“Each user of the toilet is identified through their fingerprint and the distinctive features of their anoderm, and the data are securely stored and analysed in an encrypted cloud server,” the abstract noted.

Seung-min Park, a senior research scientist at Stanford University, wrote in a blog post that the notion of an anal print was first thought of by artist Salvador Dali, who found that “the anus has 35 or 37 creases, which are as unique as fingerprints."

Edit: it's science

“Good News Everyone!”

a reply to: dug88

Not to imply anything specific, but for this particular day, this particular news, is just spot on!

a reply to: dug88
talk about the #ty end of the conversation


it would also seem to indicate that millions of years ago maybe a bit suspect. hmm

a pristine dino-butthole...proof that they went extinct prior to the advent of lonely Neanderthal men.

originally posted by: cooperton
Just another piece of evidence that shows dinosaurs are not millions of years old. Use your common sense on this one.

more proof dinosaurs aren't as old as we're told

Common sense plus the scientific method show that you are wrong regardless of your personal views. And linking to an old thread of your own creation isn't evidence of anything except your personal thoughts on the matter. Your beliefs are not comparable to valid evidence. Only your willingness to overlook anything that contradicts your own views.

If you ever feel like posting real evidence I'm happy to read it, but literally every point youve posted that supposedly proves dinosaurs and humans were alive at the same time has been debunked ad museum and this post does nothing but distract from a pretty amazing paleontological find.

a reply to: dug88

This is very interesting but I thought we're not allowed to post graphic photos of nudity, buttholes / cloacas, or other type of pornography? Well I guess now we can

a reply to: dug88

Reading your OP was the perfect capper to the entire day and its oddball works. Thank you!!

Who knew that cloacae could be just that damn fascinating.

Mmmm....cloacal kisses....

Sorry.....couldn't resist.

That really was a truly fine butthole!! preserved in all it's glory..I give a 9.2

See these are the types of posts I'm looking for! This and aliens. It's been way too much political nonsense here the last 12 years. Can we get back to what this site used to be? Also, I can't believe I have been coming here for so many years.