First fossil facial tumour found in dwarf, duck-billed dinosaur from Transylvania

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 09:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The first-ever record of a tumourous facial swelling found in a fossil has been discovered in the jaw of the dwarf dinosaur Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a type of primitive duck-billed dinosaur known as a hadrosaur. An international group of researchers, including Kate Acheson, a PhD student at the University of Southampton, have documented a type of […]

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