What's worse than seeing some fleas jump from your dog onto you? Well, a bunch of things. But it's still gross. And in the old days, it was even grosser. Chinese paleontologists just reported finding some dino-age flea fossils. Normally you'd think that would be hard to have done, the little buggers being so small and all. But in this case, they weren't quiiite so small. Almost an inch long, in fact. They looked something like this:
Ewwww! If you want to read more, there's a nice article on them here.
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