Ticks That Fed on Dinosaurs Found Trapped in Amber

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

[Red Badger]

We have some really big woodpeckers today!

[Larry Lucido]

Here's an artist's rendering.

[left that other site]

Penny-The-Prancing-Pitbull has a very special Tick Collar ($80) that resists 4 kind of ticks that are responsible for the following diseases:

Anaplasmosis
Ehrlichia
Rocky Mountain Spotted fever
Lymne’s Didease
and some new one beginning with the letter “P”

Hey...why not extract some DNA from these prehistoric ticks and clone some new ones so we can study the diseases that may have killed off the Dinosaurs!!!!

Uh....maybe not...

[Red Badger]

Candy Kane, Amanda Love, Anita Bigwan.....................

[BlueLancer]

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

Tiffany ...

[Red Badger]

Same reason that feather looks the same.

You stick with what works.

You don’t mess with success...............

[Larry Lucido]

You can see better if you call for an Amber Lamps.

[null and void]

+1

[null and void]

Exactly the name I was going to suggest...

[SunkenCiv]

the amber keyword, just the GGG topics:

• Ticks Trapped in Amber Were Likely Sucking Dinosaur Blood [2017]
• New Cretaceous Fossils Shed Light On The Early Evolution Of Ants [2016]
• 3600-year-old Swedish Axes Were Made With Copper From Cyprus [2016]
• Ancient flowering plant was beautiful -- but probably poisonous [2016]
• Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt [2014]
• Scientists Have Found An Ancient Fossilized Mosquito Full Of Blood (46 Million Years OLD) [2013]
• Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber [2013]
• A Fossilized Scene of a Spider Attacking a Wasp, Preserved for 110 Million Years [2012]
• Prehistoric tiny bugs found trapped in amber [2012]
• 'Dinofuzz' Found in Canadian Amber [2011]
• Peru researchers make rare ancient insect find [2011]
• Prehistoric mammal hair found in Cretaceous amber [2010]
• Rare Bronze Age necklace is found [ Britain ] [2008]
• Marine plankton found in amber [2008]
• Geology Picture(s) of the Week, August 2-8, 2008: Okmok Continues, and Burmite [2008]
• Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old [2008]
• Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased In Amber (100 Million Years Old) [2008]
• How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures [2007]
• Scientist: Frog Could Be 25M Years Old [2007]
• Germs Found In Amber Lived With First Dinosaurs [2006]
• Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee [2006]
• Spider 'is 20 million years old' [2005]
• Oldest spider silk preserved in amber [2003]
• Dinosaur Breath - Cretaceous Atmosphere Sample obtained and Studied. [2003]

There's a pretty little thing, waitin' for the king, down in the Amber Room...

• Treasure hunters say they have found .... the £200m Amber Room [2017]
• Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland? [2016]
• 60-year hunt for Russian Czars' missing Amber Room may be over [2011]
• Hitler's Gold: Uncovering the Biggest Bank Heist in History [2009]
• Stolen Nazi Gold May Be In German Cavern (Amber Room?) [2008]
• Fate Of Russia's Lost Art Treasure Revealed After 60-Year Cover-Up (Amber Room) [2004]
• Mysteries of the Amber Chamber - restoration of the 8th wonder of the world [2003]
• Russia's Jewel Box: A Resurrected Amber Room Glows With History and Mystery [2003]
• Hunt on for Tsars' Amber Room [2003]

[SunkenCiv]

Besides that, time doesn’t pass for ticks, because there are no tocks.

[Slyfox]

Ticks don't mind persistent BO.

[Rebelbase]

[TheThirdRuffian]

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

There is a giant open air oil waste pit near me that could work. It’s a solid section (640 acres) large and about 30 feet deep. Full of waste oil and goop.

Run by Bill Richardson “environmentalist.”

Since a animal is about 95% water, anything that hits it (migratory bird, witness to corruption, Rose law firm billing records) immediately sinks.

I’m sure whatever is in it is preserved perfectly.

Probably the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in person, and I been in war and worked in the oilfield.

[DCBryan1]

[TigersEye]

Great collection of links. Thanks, SC!

[Kartographer]

Ticks? Hmmm....Who knew that Demorats roamed the Earth that long ago?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My thoughts exactly. I HATE ticks, and I HATE chiggers even more! That is Chiggers with a “C”. I got into a mess of them last year. I carry a .45 to kill the ticks.

[ZULU]

Uh oh!!!

[Bonemaker]

That’ll be tar pit in a zillion years.