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Published online 23 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040419-11

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Did dinosaurs lack daughters?

See-sawing climate may have fatally unbalanced sex ratio.

Dinosaurs may have been forced into extinction partly because there were too few females, say researchers in the UK. The claim revives a venerable debate.

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