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Fossil Friday! This hadrosaur suffered from septic arthritis, a joint infection common in humans that causes cartilage to disintegrate, leaving bone to run on bone. As in humans, these two arm bones should have been separate, instead they are fused together with diseased bone.
Hadrosaur Radius & Ulna bones Gloucester Co., NJ Late Cretaceous ~70 million yrs Gift of Hungerford and Terry, Inc.
Original source can be found here.
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