The findings of a new study have revealed that dinosaurs were blessed with an ability to heal their bone-crushing injuries. These injuries were so severe that they can easily kill humans and other animals in absence of immediate medical care.

Scientists have not been able to study grisly injuries suffered by dinosaurs in detail until now. The researchers analyzed the toe bone of a giant carnivorous dinosaur, Allosaurus fragilis, which was discovered in Utah.

With the help of a new type of imaging technology, they found evidence of trauma and sickness in dinosaurs along with signs of healing, which started immediately after suffering the injuries.

"Using synchrotron imaging, we were able to detect astoundingly dilute traces of chemical signatures that reveal not only the difference between normal and healed bone, but also how the damaged bone healed", said Dr. Phil Manning, a researcher at Manchester's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and co-author of the new study.

Manning said their study sparked a belief that dinosaurs evolved a splendid suite of defense mechanisms which helped them heal and repair their injuries.

Co-author Jennifer Ann said they were able to understand new things about the way bones heal with the significant help of the synchrotron-based imaging, which is capable of focusing a light 10 billion times brighter than the Sun. Previously, researchers were not able to learn more about injuries in dinosaurs because they could only record morphological bone observations after physically slicing out a thin action.

Ann said it really exciting to know that there is a lot to be known about bone even after hundreds of years of research.