Ancient beetles had a taste for dinosaur feathers

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Ancient beetles had a taste for dinosaur feathers
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A recent discovery sounds like the beginning of another Jurassic Park reboot.

. According to the team, the feathers do not belong to modern birds, since that group of animals appeared roughly 30 million years later during the Late Cretaceous.

but evidence of arthropod-vertebrate relationships is still extremely rare in the fossil record, according to the team on this study.modern skin beetles, or dermestids Molt remains of feather-feeding beetle larvae intimately associated with downy feather portions from an unidentified theropod dinosaur in Early Cretaceous amber of Spain. Insets show the head with powerful mandibles of one of the larval molts and the pigmentation pattern of feather second order branches , with the main stem of one feather at the right of the amber fragment. The amber fragment is only 6 millimeters across.

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