Meet the 'mold pigs,' a new group of invertebrates from 30 million years ago

ScienceDaily
Oct 8, 2019, 12:56 pm52 pts
Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and species of microinvertebrate from the mid-Tertiary period, a discovery that shows unique lineages of the tiny creatures were living 30 million years ago.

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