Dinosaurs got cancer too, 76-million-year-old tumour shows

When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada’s Alberta province in 1989, they spotted a badly malformed leg bone they figured was a healed fracture.A fresh examination, researchers said on Monday, shows something different. The malformation was a manifestation of osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer, making this Centrosaurus, which lived 76 million years ago, the first known example of a dinosaur…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3095896/dinosaurs-got-cancer-too-76-million-year-old-tumour