Scientists find 240 million-year-old parasite that infected mammals' ancestor

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 07:53 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An egg much smaller than a common grain of sand and found in a tiny piece of fossilized dung has helped scientists identify a pinworm that lived 240 million years ago.

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