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Re: [dinosaur] Parasites in dinosaurs



There's an awful book on it, here are two helpful reviews: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/what-bugged-the-dinosaurs-poor-research/ and
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/5/446/297679?login=true

Thomas Yazbeck




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Subject: [dinosaur] Parasites in dinosaurs
 
Good day!

Is there any study about possible dinosaur parasites? There surely is not much to know about it, but still - blood parasites were found in a titanosaur sauropod bone, lessions on "Sue" and other tyrannosaurid jaws might be come from a parasite infection, there were blood-sucking ticks found in burmese amber etc. I wonder, if already during the Jurassic and Cretaceous there were nasty internal flesh-eating parasites like mangoworms and cuterebra? Thank you for your thoughts! Tom