Paleontologists Are Still Amazed: a Castelonian Cretaceous Dinosaur Suffered From a Bacterial Infection, and They Discover It Thanks to a Lump Found in One of Its Bones

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A fossil found in Morella, in the province of Castellón, has revealed the first documented evidence of a bacterial infection in a dinosaur. It is the right tibia of more than one metre in length of the large ornithopod (a biped dinosaur and herbivore) Iguanodon bernissartensis, one of the most emblematic groups of the Lower Cretaceous ... Continue reading "Paleontologists are still stunned: a Castelonian Cretaceous dinosaur suffered a bacterial …