Respiratory infection found in dinosaur that lived 150m years ago

Scientists who examined a fossil of Dolly' say it would have suffered coughing, sneezing and fever

In a timely reminder that respiratory infections are not a modern malaise, researchers have found the first evidence of such an affliction in a dinosaur that lived 150m years ago.

Palaeontologists made the discovery when they examined the fossilised neck bones from a diplodocid, a huge, long-necked herbivore that walked the Earth in the late Jurassic period.