article_snippet.sent: Now, researchers believe researchers have come up with a way to tell fossils of small feathered male dinosaurs from those of females.
article_snippet.sent: Palaeontologists led by Scott Persons (pictured) believe Palaeontologists led by Scott Persons can tell males and females apart from certain tail bones .
article_snippet.sent: ‘Determining a dinosaur’s gender is really hard,’ said graduate student Scott Persons, who is lead author of the study, published in Scientific Reports.
article_snippet.sent: Because soft anatomy seldom fossilises, a dinosaur fossil usually provides no direct evidence of whether it was a male or a female.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists mating ritual may bear some resemblance to that of small feathered dinosaurs .
highlights_snippet.sent: University of Alberta experts said differences in size and shape of tail bones enable male and female small feathered dinosaurs to be sexed .
  