Scientists discover world's first tapeworm body fossil

Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-03-28 19:51:15 NANJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- A team of international scientists has found a tapeworm body fossil in a mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, dating back approximately 100 million years, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This fossil displays unique external and internal features that are most consistent with the tentacles of extant trypanorhynch tapeworms that parasitize marine elasmobranchs (mainly sharks and rays). Cestoda, or tapeworms, are a …