This flea died 20 million years ago ... may be a very early version of the Black Death. We know what Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that modern scientists believe caused the Black Death, does ...

Scientists may have found the oldest-ever evidence of the bubonic plague, locked away in an ancient flea trapped in amber. In a study published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology ...

A microscopic discovery may soon offer a peak into prehistoric pestilence– a possible ancestor of the Black Death has been discovered on a fossilized flea. The flea, who bit it about 20 million ...

"Since the dried droplet with bacteria is still attached to the tip of the proboscis, the flea may have become entrapped in resin shortly after it had fed on an infected animal," George Poinar Jr ...

The bubonic plague bacterium then infects a new victim, and the flea eventually dies from starvation. " Source: Wikipedia Gross, I know. But the original plague, the Black Death, has never returned.

2. Over the Speed Limit Dr. Duncan and Dr. Scott argue that the breakneck rate that the Black Death tore across Europe could not be sustained by a flea-borne plague. The Black Death spread about ...

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more ... by the bite of an infected flea. They found that what helped ...

A flea preserved in amber for a staggering 20 million years may contain the oldest strain of the Black Death, which wiped out half the European population in the 14th century. If the tiny insect ...

About 20 million years ago a single flea became entombed in amber with ... Periodic waves of what was called the Black Death, for the gruesome condition in which it left its victims, swept through ...

The Black Death killed some 25 million Europeans in a devastating outbreak between 1347 and 1352, and then reappeared periodically for more than 300 years. Scholars had thought flea-infested rats ...