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Author: | Barbra Voltaire, FGG [ Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:51 pm ] |
Post subject: | Lice-Filled Dinosaur Feathers Found Trapped in Amber |
Lice-Filled Dinosaur Feathers Found Trapped in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber Smithsonian Magazine wrote: Prehistoric insects that resemble modern lice infested animals as early as the mid-Cretaceous, living and evolving along with dinosaurs and early birds. Scientists examining amber fossils discovered 100-million-year-old insects preserved with the damaged dinosaur feathers on which they lived. The bugs provide paleontologists’ first glimpse of ancient lice-like parasites that once thrived on larger animals’ feathers and possibly hair. READ MORE |
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