The incredible find was published on February 10 in the latest issue of Scientific Reports.
In their study, the researchers wrote: “The hadrosaur pathology findings were indistinguishable from those of humans with LCH, supporting that diagnosis.
“This report suggests that hadrosaurids had suffered from larger variety of pathologies than previously reported.”
Professor Bruce Rothschild of Indiana University, US; Professor Frank Rühli of the University of Zurich, Switzerland; and Darren Tanke of the Royal Museum of Paleontology also contributed to the study.
Dr Hila said: “Professor Rothschild and Tanke spotted an unusual finding in the vertebrae of a tail of a young dinosaur of the grass-eating herbivore species, common in the world 66 to 80 million years ago.