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Parasitologist (they/them) who writes a blog about parasites (dailyparasite.blogspot.com/) and also draws monster girls www.deviantart.com/the-episiarch/gallery
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The ones for which we do have a good idea of their parasites/symbionts, are the species where we have found their coprolites since many gut parasites have eggs/propagules that exit the host via the faecal route. An example can be found here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)
A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

We perform the first multidisciplinary study of parasites from an extinct megafaunal clade using coprolites from the New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Ancient DNA and microscopic analyses of 8...

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There's an okay record of parasitic traces in mollusk shells (mostly from trematodes and spionid polychaetes) but it's all really ambiguous. Today, gymnophallid trematode larvae make rimmed pits in clam shells and have fish or seabirds as their definitive hosts. We see similar pits long before the

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Veeloxxy Bites
@the-episiarch.bsky.social
Parasitologist (they/them) who writes a blog about parasites (dailyparasite.blogspot.com/) and also draws monster girls www.deviantart.com/the-episiarch/gallery
1k followers79 following1.4k posts