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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Giant Dinosaurs had Giant Fleas
Fossils of 150-million-year-old fleas have been
unearthed
in China, and they are huge: up to 2 cm long for females (left), four times as long as the longest modern fleas. They couldn't jump, though.
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