Researchers have found the first evidence of a respiratory infection – potentially with flu-like symptoms – in a dinosaur that lived 150 million years ago.
The discovery made in the fossilised neck bones of a young diplodocid – a young long-necked sauropod dinosaur like Brontosaurus, allows scientists to better understand the illnesses that affected the animals.
The herbivore, nicknamed “Dolly”, was discovered in 1990 in south-west Montana in the US, and walked the Earth in the late Jurassic Period.
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