Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News
A 240-million-year-old case of bone cancer has turned up in a fossil of an extinct ancestor of turtles.
Dating to the Triassic Period, the fossil is the oldest known example of this cancer in an amniote, a group that includes mammals, birds and reptiles, researchers report online February 7 in JAMA Oncology.The fossilized left femur from the shell-less stem-turtle Pappochelys rosinae was recovered in southwestern Germany in 2013. A growth on the…
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