Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The fossilized femur of a 240 million-year-old reptile showed evidence of osteosarcoma, according to a research ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a shell-less turtle developed a malady in its bones. Now, 240 million years later, the Triassic period turtle is finally receiving a diagnosis: bone cancer. This is ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered one of the oldest known case of bone cancer via a 240-million-year-old fossil, a study has revealed. The malignant tumor was identified in the femur of a Pappochelys, a ...