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Earliest Cancer in Central America Identified

Archaeologists, studying the skeletal remains of a teenager in western Panama, have discovered the earliest evidence of cancer in Central America. The adolescent was between 14 and 16 years old when she died, in about 1300 CE. Although her skeleton was first found in the 1970s, it was not until recent re-analyses were done that signs of a tumor were identified on their upper right arm.

Unfortunately, it was not a painless cancer. She would have experienced intermittent pain, as the sarcoma grew and expanded through her bone, until she died. Interestingly, a pediatric oncologist who examined the remains thought that the cancer was unlikely the ultimate cause of her death – though there is no way to know for certain now.

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“Compression fracture of T12 vertebral centrum and subsequent wedging.“

(Source @Angela_Lieverse on Twitter)

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Check out this incredible bull moose skull I just got!

Poor guy sustained a massive injury to the side of his head around one eye socket and antler pedicle—likely while fighting with another bull. The antler pedicle is gone, as is most of his eye socket! Some of the missing eye socket likely happened posthumously because that area of bone is very brittle and it probably just crumbled away. The bone in that area was healing while he was still alive but it is still very fragile and porous. He also had another, older injury just under his eye socket on the other side of his head that had mostly healed (the hole there happened after death since the breaks are clean).

Better pics once I get him cleaned up!

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Pathologies! A red fox jaw with abnormal bone growth on the mandible, A malinois (?) with healed trauma to the face, and a labrador eith a baculum and ossified/calcified tumours.

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Okay, now anyone have an idea what THESE are? (Where are they coming from all of a sudden)

I’m guessing the first is some sort of rodent jaw? And the last one seems like it could be from the little bullheads I was finding washed up here the other day. And going by that, if those are fin bones, perhaps the bones I posted earlier aren’t jaw bones, but fins from a bigger fish?

Those would be awfully small and neat compared to other fish teeth i’ve seen around here.

@boneidentification any thoughts?

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Gray fo.x, Red fo.x, Coyo.te, Gray Wol.f

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Is it a leg bone of some sort? My grandfather gave it to me with no explanation, I’m thinking it’s possibly deer?

This is a metacarpal/metatarsal (lower front/back leg bone) of an equine! Equines are single-toed ungulates and have that single ridge on the distal end, whereas two-toed ungulates like deer and cow have a pair of these “ridges”.

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Coyotes and their variants (click the images for their descriptions).

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Think this guy has to be my favourite skull.

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Academic Networking Poster for boneid! The logo is the old one. It’s getting replaced now.

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Donkey Foal Teeth

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My latest articulation– an adorable arm.adillo!!

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Arctic Fox vs Gray Fox

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The skull of C. l. familiaris. It’s the domestic dog! This is a young brachycephalic (short-nosed) specimen, likely from a pitbull-type bully breed.

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I’ve been working on this thing on and off for the past several months, but I think I can say it’s finally finished!

This fossil woolly rhinoceros skull was pretty beat up when I bought it (see Pic 2), but after extensive reconstructive surgery (and a bit of foam, Magic Sculpt, and acrylic paint), I’ve got him looking about 30,000 years younger!

Woolly rhinoceroses like this guy were hairy relatives of modern rhinos that lived alongside woolly mammoths in Europe and Asia until their extinction about 10,000 years ago.

(This skull was originally recovered from the permafrost in Russia’s Tyumen region. It dates back to the late Pleistocene, about 30,000 years ago. The lower jaw, which came from a separate individual, was found in Yakutia.)

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I just finished up this alpaca cria skull. The bone is so thin in places it’s translucent! Very cool little piece. 

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does anyone have any idea what this partial skull is from ? i found it in an owl pellet in oregon if that’s any help apologies for the blurry pictures, tremors are the WORST