Evidence South American theropods were blighted by bone diseases
Theropods (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) may have suffered from bone diseases caused by conditions such as arthritis or congenital malformations, suggests an analysis of three specimens from three different species of South American theropods known as abelisaurids. The findings, published in BMC Ecology & Evolution, provides novel evidence of pathologies not caused by injuries in theropods, and also suggest that different types of theropods may have been prone to different injuries and
