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16-million-year-old tardigrade trapped in amber a ‘once in a generation’ find – CNET
This is a fossil about as rare as they come.

This lateral view of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus shows how it looks with a stereomicroscope.
Ninon Robin (Harvard/NJIT)
A long, long time ago, a miniscule animal met its end in a sticky trap of tree resin. Sixteen million years later, that tiny tardigrade…
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