Hard tick Grasping a Dinosaur Feather Preserved in 99 Million-year-old Burmese Amber (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Hard tick Grasping a Dinosaur Feather Preserved in 99 Million-year-old Burmese Amber

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Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber. Modified from the open access article published in Nature Communications: 'Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.'

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