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Paleopathology and the Sexual Habits of Dinosaurs, as Derived from Study of Their Fossil Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Bruce M. Rothschild
Bruce M. Rothschild*
Affiliation:
Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Biomedical Engineering University of Akron Carnegie Museum of Natural History and University of Kansas Museum of Natural History 5701 Market Street, Youngstown, OH 44512
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Dinosaurs, medicine, and pathology and have long been intertwined. A family physician, Gideon Algernon Mantell, found the first English dinosaur, while making house calls (Rothschild and Martin, 1993). This was 19 years prior to Sir Richard Owen's first use of the name, dinosaur in 1841. The Carnegie Museum's acquisition of its superb Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was the result of another form of pathology. Fear that Hitler would bomb New York City led The American Museum of Natural History to transfer one of its two tyrannosaurs (to safeguard the genus).

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Adaptations and Behavior
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 7: Dino Fest , 1994 , pp. 275 - 284
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Copyright © 1994 Paleontological Society 

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