Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking stor

[Sinornis]

Just came across this remarkable story! Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story. I guess most paleontologists are now hanging out at the amber markets in Myanmar!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213104735.htm



Photo credit by papers author.

http://avianmusing.blogspot.com/

[CityRaptor]

I expect to see some comments about cloning dinosaurs from the uneducated public once the media gets wind of it.

[ZoPteryx]

Really fascinating!  It's awesome how they were able to tell that these parasites were most likely in a nest at some point because of the associated beetle parts.

[Ravonium]

I expect to see some comments about cloning dinosaurs from the uneducated public once the media gets wind of it.

I wonder if this problem could be solved by quoting this article here:

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.

Anyways, I think this dino-tick is a good amber discovery.