The “tiny, weird bird-like dinosaur” was not a dinosaur or a bird after all, according to a retraction of the research.
An artistic rendering of Oculudentavis imagining what it looked like preying on an insect.Lizards and snakes are a different group of reptiles than dinosaurs. Both groups evolved from amphibians more than 300 million years ago, but then diverged from each other – and although some lizards now look like dinosaurs, the closest relatives of dinosaurs living today are birds, which evolved from them directly.
Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing and a co-author of the research,But she said the description of the new species remained accurate, and that it was still very interesting to science. The fossil was found in 2016 in northern Myanmar, which has become a treasure trove of prehistoric animals preserved in amber – the dried resin of ancient trees.
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