Oculudentavis khaungraae

Why in News?

• Paleontologists have found an exceptionally well-preserved and diminutive skull of a previously unknown bird-like dinosaur species in a piece of Cretaceous-period amber from northern Myanmar.

About Oculudentavis khaungraae

• It is the smallest dinosaur discovered yet.
• The scientists found the fossilised skull of a dinosaur — the size of a modern hummingbird — trapped in a 99-million-year-old amber in northern Myanmar.
• The fossil represented the smallest dinosaur from the Mesozoic era — about 250 million to 65 million years ago.

Prelims Question

Q.Oculudentavis khaungraae which was in news recently is a/an?
a)Giant Seaweed
b)Giant Eel
c)Smallest dinosaur discovered yet
d)Largest dinosaur discovered yet

Answer to the Prelims Question