The ticks really drank dinosaur blood

Science has been given serious evidence that ticks have actually been eating dinosaur blood millions of years ago, and this is not just a fiction of writers like Michael Crichton. The proof is a piece of Burmese amber about 99 million years old. Scientists have found a large tick that held a feather believed to belong to one of the feathered dinosaurs of the Cord Period, somewhere between 145 and 66 million years ago.

The find is extremely rare because it has preserved not only the ancient bug-bloody but also the one with which it fed. So far, this is the oldest preserved similar paleontological find that puts ticks and dinosaurs in a time period. "Ticks are parasitic organisms that suck blood and have a very serious effect on human health, livestock, pets and even wild animals, but so far no clear idea of ​​their role in ancient times," explains Enrique Penalver

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