Paleontologists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in China say that the prehistoric fleas had:
- disproportionately long proboscis, or straw-like mouth, had sharp weapon-like serrated edges that helped them bite and feed from their super-sized hosts
One thing these monsters didn't have was well developed legs, so they didn't have the fantastic jumping ability that modern fleas do today. Crawling was the order of the day
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That thing is thankfully no longer around. Can you imagine the blood a flea that size could take. It kind of reminds me of the same end result as that mosquito in the new Land of The Lost movie. Regardless, quite an unpleasant sensation I am sure, for something that isn't 40 feet long. We have all kinds of fossils we go tin Houston woods Ohio, even a worm fossil. But never found something like this. Not yet anyway.
It couldnt even stay on elephants today....if it was aquatic, maybe whales...but this thing just has horror for a middle name...and they didn't jump...crawled, can you imagine?! The horror...the horror
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