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Sick Dinosaur May Have Had the Earliest Known Cough

Credit: WOODRUFF ET AL. (2022); CORBIN RAINBOLTPeculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infectionIt takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the...