Observatory: A Window to Bone Disease in a Shark’s Skeleton

Friday, January 10, 2014 - 15:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The elephant shark’s skeleton is made up largely of cartilage, not bone, and a possible explanation could help in developing treatments for bone diseases like osteoporosis.

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