title: Palaeontology: the 165-million-year itch.
abstract: New flea-like fossils from China provide a rare, tantalizing glimpse of bizarre insects in the Cretaceous and Jurassic. Possibly the oldest flea-like animals known, they provide a challenge to the functional morphologist to infer which animals they may have targeted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. poinarg@science.oregonstate.edu
authors.forename: George O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Poinar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005580:Fossils; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D007313:Insecta / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000469:parasitology*