Daily Mail, HuffPo Dumb Down Dinosex

I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about prehistoric sex for a while. Between copulating turtles, romantically entwined sharks, a review I’m writing of John Long’s Dawn of the Deed, and, not least of all, the chapter on dinosaur sex in my next book, I’ve said plenty about fossil fucking. But the Daily Mail is making me break my vow.

Earlier today, the tabloid published a brief article on dinosaur sex that amounted to “Hur hur, dinopeen.” (It’s a close retread of a similarly titled article

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