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Monday, June 10, 2013

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Bone tumor in 120,000-year-old Neandertal discovered

Posted: 05 Jun 2013 04:01 PM PDT

The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present-day Croatia. The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.

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