Re: Cretaceous lice

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

At 16:36 2006-05-17, Tim Williams wrote:


>  The bizarre Cretaceous louse-like insect _Saurodectes_ rates a mention; 
> this critter was 17 mm long(!), so the authors suggest that it probably 
> had a "huge host".
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim

Reminds me of Brian W Aldiss' science fiction story "Poor little warrior" 
about a time-travelling hunter who goes back to the Cretaceous and shoots a 
sauropod, only to be killed by the parasites swarming off the dead body!

Tommy Tyrberf