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Lousy with Success: Genetics Reveal Fossil Lice as Evolutionary Champions [Slide Show]

For feathered dinosaurs the late Cretaceous period may have been a very itchy time. Lice--the tiny wingless insects that feed on dead skin, and sometimes blood--were just beginning to dig in about 100 million years ago, and the epoch's small furry mammals, early birds and dino-birds would have provided ample food. The louse fossil record is relatively sparse

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