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 ...

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 ...

While browsing amber markets in Myanmar, scientists discovered the feathers and partial tail of a tiny baby dinosaur that lived some 99 million years ago. The find, described in the journal Current ...

Scientists are challenging the reported discovery of fossilized lice-like bugs crawling through dinosaur feathers, but the original researchers are standing by their interpretation. Y’all know what ...

Underside of preserved tail section, displaying paler plumage, numerous decay products, and an associated ant. Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM/ R.C. McKellar) Once thought to to be scaly-skinned beasts ...

WASHINGTON - In science fiction, amber preserved the DNA that allowed rebirth of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. In real life, amber preserved feathers that provide a new image of what dinosaurs looked ...

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 ...

This is the first stage. They’re simple, single filaments, found in dense forests and unrecognisable as feathers. They’re different from the hairs of mammals because they don’t have any scales along ...