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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Auteurs principaux: | Taiping Gao, Xiangchu Yin, Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Xing Xu, Sha Chen, Chen Wang, Dong Ren |
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Langue: | EN |
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Nature Portfolio
2019
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