Prehistoric Ticks Once Drank Dinosaur Blood, Fossil Evidence Shows
Ticks chevy the dinosaur , too , as evidenced by a 99 - million - year old parasite preserved inside a hunk of ancient amber . Entomologists who examined the Cretaceous full point fossil noticed that the tiny arachnid was latched to a dinosaur feather — the first evidence that the bloodsuckers dine on dinos , according toThe New York Times . These findings wererecently publishedin the journalNature Communications ....