'Zombie'dinosaur had open wounds and bone disease

摘要

BONE disease discovered in the leg of a titanosaur from 83 million years ago may have been caused by the first parasites seen in a dinosaur bone. Titanosaurs were among the largest ever land animals and this one probably had open wounds. "It's a new kind of parasite," says Aline Ghilardi at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. "We don't have anything similar to it."