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Bones are sick - and this time, we mean it literally. From infected bite marks to the ever-prevalent markings of tuberculosis, we're talking about the signs of illnesses and injuries in fossils and what they tell us about the lives (and deaths) of these animals.
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Cancer, infections and pus, injuries, animal suffering, Meaghan calling things a T. rex that are not, in fact a T. rex
Images From the Episode
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References
References
Witzmann, F., & Asbach, P. (2022). Disease in the Fossil Record. In The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology (pp. 541-556). Routledge.
Rothschild, B. M., & Laub, R. (2006). Hyperdisease in the late Pleistocene: validation of an early 20th century hypothesis. Naturwissenschaften, 93(11), 557-564.
Rothschild, B. M., Surmik, D., & Bertozzo, F. (2023). Modern Paleopathology, the Study of Diagnostic Approach to Ancient Diseases, their Pathology and Epidemiology: Let there Be Light, the Light of Science and Critical Thinking. New York, NY, USA: Springer.
Understanding tuberculosis in elephants https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-022-03356-8
Stilson, Kelsey T., Samantha SB Hopkins, and Edward Byrd Davis. "Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 million years to the present." PLoS One 11.2 (2016): e0146221.
https://peerj.com/articles/7803/#fig-10
allosaurus jimmadseni
big al ouchies
edmontosaurus snack
DePalma, R. A., Burnham, D. A., Martin, L. D., Rothschild, B. M., & Larson, P. L. (2013). Physical evidence of predatory behavior in Tyrannosaurus rex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(31), 12560-12564.
Dope Andy Farke paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2617760/
OMG BONE CANCER IS SO SAD AND REALLY COOL
Yara Haridy is awesome
1.7 Ma human cancer
https://www.sajs.co.za/article/view/3566
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/tyrannosaurus-the-cannibal-84125216/
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