MadSci Network: General Biology |
Cancer is an abnormal/uncontrollable cell division which may be caused by certain viral infections and certain chemical agents called carcinogens. After industrialization, we the human beings have introduced a lot of such carcinogens into our environment. Such carcinogen were absent in the period when dinosaurs were alive! If at all they get, dinosaurs might have got cancer due to viral infections. Also read my answer to the question "are animals that haven't evolved much less likely to get cancer?". (ID: 975599440.Ev)
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