The dinosaur that welcomes visitors to the Natural History Museum harbors a fascinating history. Researchers have identified a severe bone infection in the dinosaur, which lived around 220 million ...

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The prehistoric world wasn’t a paradise free of disease, but diagnosing ancient ailments is tricky: Germs usually don’t fossilize well. Now, though, researchers have unearthed evidence of what appears ...

Eighty million years ago, in what is now Brazil, a silent killer impacted the giants of the land. New research reveals that sauropods, the magnificent long-necked dinosaurs, succumbed to a severe bone ...

Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 145 million years ago appear to have also suffered from cases of the sniffles just like us. Researchers found evidence of a respiratory infection in the fossilized ...

The fossilized bones of a young dinosaur show evidence of a respiratory infection that may have caused familiar flu-like symptoms -- fever, coughing and trouble breathing. Dolly, as she's been dubbed ...

In a land before time, Dolly got a respiratory infection and, similar to many of us, likely experienced a cough, trouble breathing and a fever. Roughly 150 million years later, Dolly, the nickname for ...

MALTA, Montana (Feb. 10, 2022) – The fossilized remains of an immature diplodocid – a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, like “Brontosaurus” – may provide the first evidence of a unique ...

Scientists discovered the first instance of a dinosaur with a respiratory infection in a fossil of a diplodocid dinosaur named Dolly. The last dinosaurs roamed Earth 65 million years ago. But thanks ...