Scientists have long suspected that ticks feasted on the blood of dinosaurs, and now they've uncovered the first Direct Evidence. Preserved in a 99 million-year-old chunk of amber lies a hard tick grasping the feather of a Dinosaur, suggesting that the parasitic insects did indeed harbor a penchant for prehistoric plasma.
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Category: Science
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- Amber
- Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- University of Oxford
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