Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered what is believed to be the smallest fossil ever found. A 50-million-year-old parasite – hitching a ride on a not-much-bigger spider – was discovered during a scan of Baltic amber. Published in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters, the find was made using a computed tomography (CT) scan, […]
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world’s smallest fossil, is an ancient mite less than two tenths of a millimetre long
March 29th, 2014 Riffin