Feb 14, 2021
Happy Valentines Day 2021! Here’s a speculative dinosaur johnson courtesy of two Johns. Up top is paleoartist John Conway’s drawing of a male Citipati, a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur, with a fully extended corkscrew-like penis. Below that is the photo which inspired Conway’s piece, photographer John McLachlan’s photo of a male Argentinian duck with its fully extended corkscrew-like penis. The Argentinian duck has the largest penis to body ratio of any animal. Dinosaurs are the evolutionary ancestors of modern birds and ducks are some of the oldest birds evolutionary speaking, so the idea that we can look to them as a model for what kind of genitalia dinosaurs might have had makes sense.