Researchers from Tel Aviv University have identified a rare form of cancer in a fossilized dinosaur tail as part of the pathology of LCH (Langerhans cell histiocytosis), a unique and sometimes severe disease that still troubles people. Researchers scanned the dinosaur vertebrae and formed a computerized 3D reconstruction of the tumor and the blood vessels that supported it. The micro and macro investigations verified that it was LCH. Such findings make an extraordinary and exciting enrichment to evolutionary medicine, a relatively new field of research that examines the development and nature of diseases over time.
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