Scientists Find Cancer In Dinosaur Bones With Potential For Human Cures

Scientists Find Cancer In Dinosaur Bones With Potential For Human Cures

Scientists just uncovered soft tissue inside a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, and it could help us crack the code on cancer. The fossil belonged to Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a cow-sized herbivore with a tumor in its jaw—similar to tumors humans still get today.Why does this matter? Because buried in those ancient tissues are proteins. Tiny molecular storytellers that could reveal how diseases like cancer evolved.“Soft tissues contain …

New research shows even dinosaurs got cancer

Researchers may have found a smoking gun for human cancer research and it goes back almost 70 million years. The smoking gun in question is actually the fossilized remains of a small cow-sized dinosaur, which researchers say had a small tumor. Now, they’ve linked what appears to have been red blood cells to the tumor, showing that dinosaurs may have struggled with cancer millions of years ago, too. This discovery is more than just a sign that di…