@Happidapp Ah yes, *that* paper and those "fleas". Researchers (including me) have written at length about why the authors of the "Giant Jurassic Flea" paper essentially wrote fanfic about a random fossil bug. Here's a relevant paper https://t.co/ywtulvH2
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@Stumbleghost well I remember those papers in Nature about those "giant Jurassic fleas" which are anything but - people who actually work on fleas were like "They're nothing like fleas - or any blood-feeding insects! WTF r u high?" https://t.co/BOvJv4vWD7
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@MarkWitton @albertonykus @NicholasAG72 @TomHoltzPaleo @Dean_R_Lomax @dustydino there have been some doubts about a lot of fossil insects which have been initially interpreted to vertebrate ectoparasites, for example the supposed "Giant Jurassic Fleas" whi