Tiny bird-like dinosaur discovered in amber might actually be a lizard

By Layal Liverpool

Lida XING

A fossilised cranium trapped in amber that modified into as soon as lately identified as belonging to a little bird-love dinosaur would possibly perhaps perhaps additionally very successfully belong to a lizard.

Closing month, palaeontologists analysed an used cranium that had been preserved in amber and concluded that it doubtlessly came from a little, humming bird-love dinosaur that lived 99 million years ago. Now, a particular neighborhood of researchers get hold of reanalysed the fossil and train that it in actuality came from a lizard.

Jing La the Chinese language Academy of Sciences and colleagues requested for copies of the CT scans from the …