Dinosaur Parasites!

Even the mighty T. rex was covered in creepy, crawly parasites.

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Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs

Evidence of Intestinal Parasites of Dinosaurs

Paleohaemoproteus burmacis gen. n., sp. n. (Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) from an Early Cretaceous biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Beautiful Pigeon Bird Walking On Grass In The Square. Curious Pigeons Standing
Pond5/ronedya

Coprolite
Wikimedia Commons/United States Geological Survey

Dinosaur coprolite (Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic; Cortez, Colorado, USA)
Flickr/James St. John

Entamoeba coli
CDC/ Dr. Mae Melvin

Fasciolopsis buski
CDC/Dr. Mae Melvin

Ascaris lumbridcoides
CDC

Parasite130049 Haemoproteus syrnii -fig3
Wikimedia Commons/Karadjian, G., Puech, M.-P., Duval, L., Chavatte, J.-M., Snounou, G. & Landau, I. 2013: Haemoproteus syrnii in Strix aluco from France: morphology, stages of sporogony in a hippoboscid fly, molecular characterization and discussion on the identification of Haemoproteus species. Parasite, 20, 32. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013031

Biting midge
Flickr/Oregon State University

DMSN dinosaurs
Wikimedia Commons/Luke Jones

T-rex Sue 1070329
Wikimedia Commons/Amphibol

AMNH rex mount
Wikimedia Commons/Osborn, H.F.

Figures 1, 3, and 4
Wolff, E. D. S., Salisbury, S. W., Horner, J. R., & Varricchio, D. J. (2009). Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE, 4(9), e7288.

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[mancheaseskrelpher]

Imagine the size of the tapeworms that lived inside giant sauropods...

Ok, now stop thinking about it.

[mtaburet]

She looks so excited when talking about fossilized poop.

[erdvilla]

Jurassic Park lost scenes. "Cloning dinosaurs from DNA trapped in mosquitoes", "Ups cloned super malaria instead".

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[phoenixx]

Sometimes I just forget that dinosaurs were able to die from things other than just a world ending volcano/meteorite

[westzapwood]

I am amazed by the fact that she really reads almost every comment despite them being underrated..

[crackpapa_]

*More People should watch educational videos like this!*

[curious]

Not even the might T-Rex can escape to parasitic infection

Take that toxic Trex fanboy, your Dino is not invincible

[popcornmovies]

Who is watching this in 2020 and who really wants this channel to revive again.

[MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

Imagining I can be infected by a tapeworm, which, in turn, is affected by something else, is pretty gross!

[pdthorn]

The thumbnail looks like Dino-cold sores. Dino-STDs are not a thing I'd ever consider.

[s.k.]

I could listen to this lady talk about coprolites all day.

[Borkeen]

Lol the dinosaur on the thumbnail looks disgusted

[notok]

Idk why but i laughed so much at the dinosaur in the thumbnail because it looks so uncomfortable .... also idk why people are cringing at yaaas queen .. i was like : come on drag queen slangs

[applestrudelgirl]

never seen someone looking so happy while saying creepy crawly parasites

[hxgram]

for some reason i was thinking that the video was about parasites that looked like dinosaurs

[ZorroVulpes]

I like the little voices you do for the drawings

[ketsuekikumori]

A thought occurred to me. The old saying of "you can't polish a turd", which was busted by the mythbusters, was busted before they did, since you can cut and polish a coprolite.

[chocolate]

You're one of my favourite youtubers! You have such interesting content :D

[Ainsel]

Reminder: never eat during Gross Science videos XD