HTTP:: Famous T Rex Killed by Parasite
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In 1990, the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, provided the world with the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil to date, a beautiful specimen named Sue. The remains went on to be sold for the highest sum ever paid for a dinosaur, and became a permanent exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois. Studies have shown that it is between 67 and 65.5 million years old, and that the animal itself lived for about 28 years, which makes it the oldest T. Rex ever found. However, recent analyses have revealed that it may have been killed by parasites, rather than by violent clashes with predators, LiveScience reports. Studies done on Sue's bones revealed that the dinosaur had suffered a large number of injuries over the course of its long life, including broken ribs, fractured bones, torn tendons, and a shattered shoulder blade. It also apparently suffered from arthritis, as evidenced by the patterns in which its vertebrae were fused toge!
ther in the spinal cord. But, in spite of surviving all this damage to its body, experts believe that it was pathogen infections that finally got the best of it. The marks on its skull, which some believe to be bite marks, now prove to be the work of a microorganism. Biologists say that the infection affected the dinosaur's throat and mouth, and that...
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