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A fossilized biting midge found in India preserved in amber dates back some 54 million years, says an international team of paleontologists. Camptopterohelea odora in amber from Gujarat State, western India. Scale bar – 0.2?mm. Image credit: Frauke Stebner / University of Bonn. From studying the amber from Gujarat State …

It took years for paleontologists to come to terms with the fact that dinosaurs had feathers. We started with “dinosaurs were like big scaly lizards,” progressed to “dinosaurs probably had feathers,” and now we’re arrived at “here are some actual dinosaur feathers.” A piece of amber discovered at a market …