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| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2017 4:36 p.m. PST |
… amber tell blood-sucking story. "Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved in amber show that these parasites sucked the blood of feathered dinosaurs almost 100 million years ago, according to a new article published in Nature Communications today. Sealed inside a piece of 99 million-year-old Burmese amber researchers found a so-called hard tick grasping a feather. The discovery is remarkable because fossils of parasitic, blood-feeding creatures directly associated with remains of their host are exceedingly scarce, and the new specimen is the oldest known to date. The scenario may echo the famous mosquito-in-amber premise of Jurassic Park, although the newly-discovered tick dates from the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago) and will not be yielding any dinosaur-building DNA: all attempts to extract DNA from amber specimens have proven unsuccessful due to the short life of this complex molecule…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 16 Dec 2017 4:53 p.m. PST |
And that's how the human race contracts the Dino zombie plague. Dan
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| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2017 3:03 p.m. PST |
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