Ticks had a taste for dinosaur blood
But it’s not clear which species the bloodsuckers preferred
![tick on a dino feather preserved in amber](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/121117_LH_ticks-dinos_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
DINE-O-SAUR In this 99-million-year-old piece of amber, a tick trapped on a dinosaur feather provides rare evidence of the hosts these bloodsuckers preferred during the Cretaceous Period.
E. Peñalver et al/Nature Communications 2017