Reconstruction of the metoposaurs, - representatives of temnospondyl amphibians in their environment, some 215 million years a : Jakub Zalewski .
International research team describes bone cancer in a large amphibian species from southwestern Poland. Reconstruction of the metoposaurs, - representatives of temnospondyl amphibians in their environment, some 215 million years a : Jakub Zalewski . More than 215 million years ago, a large amphibian species lived in floodplains in southwestern Poland: Metoposaurus krasiejowensis. On one of these fossils, Polish and American scientists, with the participation of researchers from the University of Bonn, detected bone cancer for the first time. The results have now been published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. Traces of diseases occasionally found in the bones of prehistoric animals are evidence of the ancient ancestry of some diseases, which sometimes lasted hundreds of millions of years. Now, an interdisciplinary, international research team led by Dr. Dawid Surmik of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Silesian University in Katowice, Poland, has produced another important piece of evidence for the occurrence of cancers in Earth's distant past.
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