Flea in Amber (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Flea in Amber

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This flea preserved about 20 million years ago in amber may carry evidence of an ancestral strain of the bubonic plague.

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(Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University)

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