Cretaceous Ticks Dined On Feathered Dinosaurs

[Oxytropidoceras]

Dracula ticks in amber tell ancient blood-sucking tale

By Helen Briggs, BBC News, December 12, 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42327784

 

Feather-Gripping Tick Trapped in Amber Dined on Dinos

By Mindy Weisberger, December 12, 2017

https://www.livescience.com/61175-tick-in-amber-dined-on-dinos.html

 

Enrique Peñalver, Antonio Arillo, Xavier Delclòs,

David Peris, David A. Grimaldi, Scott R. Anderson,

Paul C. Nascimbene, and  Ricardo Pérez-de la

Fuente, 2017 Parasitised feathered dinosaurs

as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages

Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1924 (2017)

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01550-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01550-z

 

Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/research/ricardo_perez_de_la_fuente.htm

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.