Ancient amber seals away first direct evidence of dinosaur blood-sucking ticks

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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