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RE: [Sick Dinos]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaime A. Headden [SMTP:qilongia@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Cc: gobi2010@hotmail.com; archosaur@usa.net
> Subject: Re: [Sick Dinos]
>
> *Tyrannosaurus* has suffered gout;
>
> *Allosaurus* and *Edmontosaurus* have had deformed skeletal
> structures were bony growths (called osteophytes) have resulted from
> an injury, later growing to abnormal proportions.
>
> In fact, if you can get your hands on _The Complete Dinosaur_, one
> chapter, _Dinosaurian Paleopathology_ by Bruce Rothschild, p. 427,
> sums the data up nicely.
>
> ==
> - Often, it is the man who is brought
> down the path to the end who does
> not see his own steps. -
>
> Jaime A. Headden
>
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Gout! OUCH!!! Isn't it true that signs of fairly advanced osteo
arthritis have
also been found in certain fossils?
Dwight