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Sketch and closeups. I used Scott Hartman’s 2016 Shonisaurus as ref, pterosaurs are quasi Carniadactylus AND THE ECTOPARASITES ARE SPECULATIVE. We don’t have direct evidence that they hosted any, but I figure slower ones might have less invasive barnacle-like creatures on em
On a Late Triassic afternoon, a large ichthyosaur lazily drifts into a shallower bay on its side to be pampered by local fish and early pterosaurs, who peck at dead skin, bits of food and ectoparasites.
@Littleting_NFT story
'littleting' parasites collection. They are ectoparasites in the digital world which can contact with everything. Such as skin of human, animals or items. They absorb the nutrient and reward the power to their host
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Meet the Fishing Bat Fly (Basilia hamsmithi)!
These remarkable #ectoparasites live exclusively on the Australian Fishing #Bat (Myotis macropus), and this is the first picture of this strange little species!
#parasitology #diptera #entomology #Insect #Chiroptera
Cleaner gobies specializing in eating ectoparasites from other fish are evolutionarily converging on specialized jaw morphology. The more specialized the diet, the more specialized the jaw! Work via @jmhuiee.
That's four different species of bat fly from one bat! Host - Jamaican fruit bat #ectoparasites #flies #bats