I hate when that happens . . .
Giant Fleas Ate Dinosaurs
> The flea's features weren't always set in stone. Ancient fleas were larger
> and had longer siphons to suck blood with than today's fleas, researchers
> report in a study published online February 29 in Nature.
>
> These and other new details gleaned from middle Jurassic and early
> Cretaceous fossils unearthed in China could help scientists piece together how
> these disease-spreading bugs evolved. The fossils date to between 165 million
> and 125 million years ago and measure between 8 and 20.6 millimeters--as
> much as six times the size of a modern human flea.
>
> The early fleas' stiff bristles and claws suggest that these bugs latched
> onto a variety of hairy or feather-covered animals, perhaps even dinosaurs,
> say the scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of
> Kansas in Lawrence and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
> and had longer siphons to suck blood with than today's fleas, researchers
> report in a study published online February 29 in Nature.
>
> These and other new details gleaned from middle Jurassic and early
> Cretaceous fossils unearthed in China could help scientists piece together how
> these disease-spreading bugs evolved. The fossils date to between 165 million
> and 125 million years ago and measure between 8 and 20.6 millimeters--as
> much as six times the size of a modern human flea.
>
> The early fleas' stiff bristles and claws suggest that these bugs latched
> onto a variety of hairy or feather-covered animals, perhaps even dinosaurs,
> say the scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of
> Kansas in Lawrence and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
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