Ornithologist Kevin Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Ornithologist Kevin Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Kevin Johnson, an ornithologist with the State Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois, led a study that found that the ancestors of lice that now prey on birds and mammals were likely around before the dinosaurs became extinct.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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