Ticks That Fed on Dinosaurs Found Trapped in Amber

news.nationalgeographic.com ^ | 12/12/2017 | John Pickrell

[Red Badger]

A lump of 99-million-year-old amber holds a tick grasping a dinosaur feather. Photograph by E. Peñalver via Nature Communications

[G Larry]

Beat me by 2 min.

I’d be more interested in “proof” of dinosaur feathers.

[beergarden]

so there were liberals back then sucking and living off other beings? Amazing..

[Red Badger]

There’s a feather in the amber................

[G Larry]

oh...my source was NYT and yours Nat Geo.

[Bonemaker]

I wonder if in a million years they’ll find over engorged fat welfare parasites preserved in amber?

[dfwgator]

“Life, uh, finds a way.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

So the dinosaurs were REALLY done-in by Lyme Disease.

[G Larry]

Ya, but who says the feather is from a dinosaur?

[Red Badger]

They’ll find over engorged fat welfare parasites named Amber................

[Red Badger]

Who says the tick sucked dinosaur blood?

It was found with a feather, so I would guess it was sucking bird blood..............

Now, if they can get some of that blood.................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. First time in a while, a "Look Back in Amber" ping.

[Larry Lucido]

Might have been an Indian dinosaur.

[Red Badger]

That and tobacco..........

[TigersEye]

The Hukawng Valley at the northern tip of Myanmar has produced a series of exquisite amber fossils in recent years, including lizards, flowers, insects, bird wings—and perhaps most excitingly, the feathered tail of a small dinosaur and the remains of an entire baby enantiornithine bird.

The trees that existed then must have oozed huge quantities of sap. Nasty way to go, suffocated in a big blob of tree sap.

[G Larry]

Pochasaurus?

[heights]

If it weren’t for Amber, what name would porn stars have?

[Red Badger]

My guess is that ancient woodpeckers made holes to do exactly that..................

[Cowboy Bob]

Why do ticks look the same today as 99 million years ago? Why didn’t they evolve?

[TigersEye]

Really big woodpeckers! lol