Artist‘s reconstruction of Mesophthirus engeli of elder development stage feeding on the dinosaur feathers from mid-Cretaceous amber. Chen Wang Anyone who’s had to deal with a lice infestation knows ...

Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects ...

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

Ticks sucked the blood of feathered dinosaurs some 99 million years ago, a new study suggests. Modern ticks are infamous for biting humans and other mammals. But ticks are very ancient, and scientists ...