Artistic reconstruction of Cretapsara athanata Franz Anthony/Javier Luque/Harvard University
A tiny crab is the first to be found trapped in amber from the dinosaur era. It lived in a forest area of South-East Asia 99 million years ago.
Remarkably similar to modern crabs, the 5-millimetre-long crustacean is fully preserved, making it 鈥渢he most complete crab [fossil] ever discovered鈥, says at Harvard University.
鈥淲e are talking about pristine preservation, as in, not missing a single hair,鈥 Luque says. 鈥淎nd even though it鈥檚 so small, we were able to see so many details so exquisitely, including the gills. That鈥檚 just…
