OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM — New research in the journal Nature Communications discusses how ticks fed on feathered dinosaurs. <br /> <br />The newly discovered species of tick is called Deinocroton draculi, meaning "Dracula's terrible tick". <br /> <br />The ticks were found inside 99-million-year-old lumps of amber from Myanmar. Two of the ticks were found with a dinosaur feather. One was wrapped around it. <br /> <br />Researchers say the finding the is the first direct evidence that ticks fed on feathered dinosaurs. <br /> <br />Scientists suspect the feather belonged to an unknown type dinosaur or a ancient bird species called enantiornithine.
