[Rockhounds] Amber Fossils Reveal Lice-Like Bugs Crawling in Dinosaur Feathers

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on
their feathers, as evidenced by a pair of fascinating new amber fossils.

Modern birds are sometimes infested by feather-chewing and feather-feeding
lice, and as new research
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13516-4> published today in
Nature Communications shows, their Mesozoic predecessors had a similar
problem.

https://gizmodo.com/amber-fossils-reveal-lice-like-bugs-crawling-in-dinosau-1840337852