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Thursday, 12 March 2020

Tiniest dinosaur skull preserved in amber

This bird-like skull, exquisitely preserved in amber for almost 100 million years, belonged to probably the smallest dinosaur ever discovered. The skull is less than 2 centimetres long — suggesting that the creature was the size of a bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenæ), the smallest living bird.



Postscript:

See World’s smallest dinosaur is probably a lizard
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