Tuesday 12 December 2017

Tick that fed on dinosaurs found preserved on its host’s fossilized feather

Tick that fed on dinosaurs found preserved on its host’s fossilized feather

Trapped in 100-million-year-old amber, the fossils are the first ever evidence linking ticks to a dinosaur host. In a discovery that seems straight out of Jurassic Park, researchers have identified a 99-million-year-old fossilized tick on a dinosaur feather.

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