New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber

Numerous feathered dinosaurs and early birds have been discovered from the Jurassic and Cretaceous, but the early evolution of feather-feeding insects is not clear. Here, Gao et al. describe a new family of ectoparasitic insects from 10 specimens found associated with feathers in mid-Cretaceous ambe...

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Main Authors: Taiping Gao, Xiangchu Yin, Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Xing Xu, Sha Chen, Chen Wang, Dong Ren
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/580751e26c7f4a61b8f5a67b645a4a2c
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