An Anglo-Spanish team of fossil hunters has found several perfectly preserved ticks among the remains of a feathered dinosaur nest.

One was found entangled with a dinosaur feather, another is swollen with blood, and two were in a dinosaur nest — in amber. “Jurassic Park" much?

The blood-swollen tick, newly discovered, was named Deinocroton draculi or “Dracula’s terrible tick.” 

Scientists say the discovery is the first fossil evidence that ticks fed on the blood of dinosaurs.

The research is published in the journal, Nature Communications.

"The simultaneous entrapment of two external parasites - the ticks - is extraordinary, and can be best explained if they had a nest-inhabiting ecology as some modern ticks do, living in the host's nest or in their own nest nearby," Dr David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History, who worked on the study, told the BBC.

The findings indicate that ticks have been sucking the blood of dinosaurs for almost 100 million years.

And while at the moment, science doesn't allow for the extracting of DNA from the samples, as was done in the book and movie "Jurassic Park," according to Ricardo Perez-de-la Fuente, co-author of the paper published in the journal Nature Communications.

"With modern techniques, who knows if in the future this is going to change, because science advances at a very, very high rate," he said in an interview with CBC News.

Even if science were to advance, the ticks were preserved together with iron, which contaminated the sample at its source.

After dinosaurs died out in the mass extinction 66 million years ago, ticks hung on and thrived as apparent by today's modern-day version of the critter we find in the wilderness. 

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