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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