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I'm Emily Schwang.

Given that hundreds of thousands of dinosaur bones have been dug up, is there any evidence that dinosaurs got cancer?

David Evans, senior curator of paleontology at the Royal Museum of Ontario in Toronto.

There had been a few studies that had kind of suggested based on just like gross anatomy that

dinosaurs might have gotten cancer.

But there was nothing compelling

from a medical standpoint.

And from that point on, we decided to go on a hunt

for rare dinosaur diseases in particular cancer.

So in 2017, Evans and colleagues

went digging through a collection of dinosaur bones

at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology

in Alberta, a hotbed of dinosaur fossils.

And out of the hundreds of dinosaur bones that we looked at,

we found one that was a candidate for bone cancer.

The bone specimen evidence and his colleagues that was a candidate for bone cancer.

The bone specimen evidence and his colleagues found comes from a

dinosaur that roamed Western Canada between 70 and 75 million years ago.

The creatures called a centrosaurus.

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