Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

This miniature skull belonged to a 2-gram dinosaur

The 100-million-year-old animal might have been the smallest dinosaur.
  1. Giuliana Viglione
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

A miniature creature exquisitely preserved in amber for almost 100 million years is probably the smallest dinosaur ever discovered.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Get just this article for as long as you need it

$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00668-3

Read the related News & Views, ‘Tiny bird fossil might be the world’s smallest dinosaur’.

Updates & Corrections

  • Update 24 July 2020: The Nature paper on which this story was based was retracted on 22 July 2020.

References

  1. Xing, L. et al. Nature 579, 245–249 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Subjects

Latest on:

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links