Dwarf Dinosaur Suffered from Jaw Tumor

Millions of years ago in what is now the central Romanian region of Transylvania, a dwarf dinosaur walked the earth with a non-cancerous facial tumor similar to those found today in humans, other mammals and some reptiles. The fossilized jaw of a Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a “type of primitive duck-billed dinosaur known as a hadrosaur,” was recently unearthed by researchers at the University of Southampton and is the first time a tumor has been discovered in a fossilized...

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