Researchers find evidence of first dinosaur with sore throat, flu symptoms
The dinosaur had a flu. A really bad flu.
Cary Woodruff, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Toronto, and a team of researchers studieda fossil that may provide evidence of the first known case of a bird-style lung disease in a dinosaur. Researchers named the diplodocid Dolly, after the country western singer Dolly Parton.
“So, it’s cool that you can hold that 150-million-year-old bone from Dolly and you literally know how crummy that dinosaur felt when it was sick,” he said.
The fossilized remains of a diplodocid — a large, longnecked, herbivorous dinosaur — were first found in southwest Montana, near Yellowstone National Park, in 1990.