The sad and sorry story of Dolly the diseased and doomed dinosaur
It is not uncommon for sick animals to die not directly from disease but by falling victim to predation or starvation due to its debilitating effects.
A handout illustration shows a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.(photo credit: Courtesy of Woodruff et al. (2022) and Corbin Rainbolt/Handout via REUTERS)