Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages
Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new family D...
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Nature Publishing Group
2017
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