First cancer diagnosed in dinosaur fossil hints at communal life - News Summed Up

First cancer diagnosed in dinosaur fossil hints at communal life


Paleontologists originally assumed a growth on a leg bone was evidence of a break. The team eventually focused its attention on one fossilized leg bone. Researcher Seper Ekhtiari holds a cast of a cancerous dinosaur fossil in a handout photo. Finally, the fossil was compared to a human leg bone with bone cancer. Herd possibly protected sick dinoEkhtiari said the dinosaur was very sick.


Source: CBC News August 04, 2020 02:53 UTC



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