Mammoths suffered the same bone problems as humans

A new discovery emerged in the Mesozoic and Cenezoic Continental Ecosystem Laboratory at Tomsk State University (Russia). The head of the laboratory, Sergey Leshchinskiy discovered a curious and surprising fact when he began to analyze the remains of a mammoth.

No matter how many years separate us between their existence and ours, we were joined by one thing, skeletal diseases. According to the article published in the journal Quaternary International, after analyzing 42% of the pieces, diseases were discovered in the bone system of mammoths, so far, never seen in their kind. These diseases coincide with those that today, part of human beings we can end up suffering for example: osteofibrosis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, osteolisis and joint ailments.