In most cases, paleontologists are at least 66 million years too late to give dinosaurs medical exams. The living animals perished long, long ago. But every now and then, fossil hunters uncover a bone with signs of injury or disease–what experts call pathologies. And in the case of a particular bone found in the roughly 75 million-year-old rock of Alberta, a medical examination has revealed that dinosaurs suffered from a cancer that afflicts humans today.
A multidisciplinary team led by a paleontologist and a pathologist studied the bone inside and out, examining everything from the outside shape to the inner microscopic structure. In the end, the experts arrived at a diagnosis of osteosarcoma–a malignant bone cancer that afflicts about 3.4 out of every million people worldwide. The team’s new study, published today in The Lancet, provides the most detailed evidence yet for cancer in a dinosaur.
Discovering osteosarcoma in a dinosaur has implications for the evolutionary origins and history of cancer. “If humans and dinosaurs get the same kinds of bone cancers,” says George Washington University paleontologist Catherine Forster, “then bone cancers developed deep in evolutionary history, before the mammal and reptile lineages split 300 million years ago.”
Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too | Smithsonian Magazine
What a joke. Asserting the dinosaurs myth with the normalization of cancer. Like cancer is supposed to happen to humans because it happened to dinosaurs. Two major cons in one article and people accept it. How can people not think this is absurd? Dinosaurs getting cancer millions of years ago and paleontologists know somehow? This is insane if you don't question dinosaurs just based off of this article telling you they got cancer and there just happens to be evidence of it. Cancer isn't normal and it's an effect from modern civilizations poisons and many forms of stress.
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