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Dinosaur diagnosed with malignant cancer for the first time
short by Dharna / on Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
A plant-eating dinosaur, whose leg bone fossil was earlier thought to be "badly malformed" due to a healed fracture, has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer, scientists said. The malformation was a manifestation of osteosarcoma, making this 76-million-year-old Centrosaurus the first known dinosaur to have been afflicted by malignant cancer. The leg bone had a tumour larger than an apple.
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