Friday 3 April 2015

Dinosaur 'Romeo and Juliet' Found Buried Together


By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News | April 02, 2015 09:34am ET

A dinosaur couple that appears to have died together after wooing each other has been identified in remains unearthed at the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

The dino couple, named Romeo and Juliet since they are reminiscent of Shakespeare's famous doomed lovers, were entombed together for over 75 million years, according to a new study in the journal Scientific Reports.

Key to the research was figuring out the sex of the dinosaurs.



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