There’s a disproportionate number of male fossils when it comes to mammals.
To the tune of 70–75% with some species. They don’t know exactly why. There’s a number of theories, among them is male recklessness.
Males are programmed to go out and take more risks, to seek out new lands and females. Tangent to this, we often get ourselves in trouble.
One example is tar pits, where male mammoths are much more common. They see this male recklessness in male elephants in Africa as well.
Among the fossils, they were also much more likely to find male bison than female bison. The lead researcher from the Swedish Natural History Museum, Patrícia Pečnerová, iterated that this type of stuff is very speculative as we weren’t there to watch these events happen.
But, there is some educated guessing here. And being a male myself, and knowing a few along the way, it doesn’t surprise me that males are the ones getting buried in lava and rocks on accident.
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