Brazilian scientists recently announced that they have found blood parasites preserved in dinosaur fossil bones for the first time, and this discovery was published in the latest issue of "Cretaceous Research" published on the 15th. Scientists have discovered a parasite that caused acute osteomyelitis in dinosaurs while studying the fossil bones of Titanosaurus, which suffered from the disease. This bone infection still affects animals and humans on Earth today. Prior to this latest discovery by Brazilian scientists, prehistoric parasites were found only in insects preserved in amber or fossilized animal feces, and never in hosts. Scientists found a sponge-like lump on the skeleton of the Titanosaurus, and through analysis, it was possible to diagnose that the dinosaur had acute osteomyelitis, an infection that could cause skeletal deformities and caused a lot of pain to the Titanosaurus at the time. Titanosaurus, also known as Titanosaurus, lived between 90 million and 65 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous Period. (CCTV News;ck)
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