SMRTR Science & EngineeringSep 8, 2025Interesting Engineering

80-million-year-old fossils expose dinosaurs’ fatal bone infection

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Sauropod fossils from Brazil's Ibirá locality revealed three new forms of osteomyelitis, a severe bone infection, in six specimens from 80 million years ago, likely caused by pathogens thriving in the region's arid climate and shallow rivers.

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