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Published online 17 December 1998 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news981217-4
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Were dinosaurs up to scratch?
No sooner had birds acquired feathers than they started to scratch. According to a report in Nature a 120-million-year-old fossil turns out to have been infested with the eggs of the earliest-known bird parasite, laid by an antique variety of feather-mite.
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