Jurassic pain: Giant 'flea-like' insects plagued dinosaurs 165 million years ago
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 15:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) -- It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in but giant flea-like animals, possibly the oldest of their type ever discovered, probably did just that.
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