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Fossilized signs of gout, a painful metabolic disease, have been found in T. rex hands. June 5,1997 |
As reported in the journal Nature (May 23, 1997), a team led by Bruce M. Rothschild of the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio in Youngstown Ohio found a T. rex (named Sue) with the disease gout in the finger bones (metacarpals I and II) of its right hand. Sue was a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex found in Hell Creek, South Dakota, USA.
| While examining the cast of fossilized T. rex fingers, Bruce M. Rothschild found "bubbles" in the cast that were indications of gout lesions. Since the ownership of the fossil, Sue, was in dispute, further examination was impossible (Sue was impounded by the FBI). Rothschild found more lesions on another tyrannosaur hand bone from at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada. This specimen (either Gorgosaurus or Daspletosaurus, which predate T. rex by about 10 million years) was found by Darren Tanke at the Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. |  T. rex had tiny arms in comparison with the rest of its body. The upper part of the arm was imbedded in its body, rendering the arms almost useless and with a very limited range of motion. It had two clawed fingers on each hand. T rex's arms couldn't even reach its mouth. |
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