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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 14, 2017, 02:20:43 pm
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Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story
Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved in amber show that these parasites sucked the blood of feathered dinosaurs almost 100 million years ago, according to a new article published in Nature Communications.
Sealed inside a piece of 99 million-year-old Burmese amber researchers found a so-called hard tick grasping a feather. The discovery is remarkable because fossils of parasitic, blood-feeding creatures directly associated with remains of their host are exceedingly scarce, and the new specimen is the oldest known to date.
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