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'Tiny' dinosaur, big impact: A 90-million-year-old fossil rewrites history

  • February 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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'Tiny' dinosaur, big impact: A 90-million-year-old fossil rewrites history
A team co-led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleague Sebastian Apesteguía has identified a 90-million-year-old fossil that provides the "missing link" for a mysterious group of prehistoric animals. The study, published in Nature, details the discovery of a complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis.

Originally published at Phys.org

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