ScienceTechyNews: Dwarfs under dinosaur legs: 99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber

An 8.2-millimeter fossil millipede was discovered in Burmese amber. Having used new-age 3D X-ray microscopy, a Bulgarian-German research team confirmed this is the first fossil millipede of the entire order. The new species, despite having lived alongside the Cretaceous megafauna, is smaller than any of the extant members of its group. Because of its extraordinary morphology, it is described as a new suborder. The study was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.

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