"75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Jaw with Trapped Insect in Amber Discovered"

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Scientists have discovered a unique 75-million-year-old fossil of a hadrosaur dinosaur jawbone with a piece of amber attached, containing an ancient aphid, in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. This rare find provides insight into the diet and environment of hadrosaurs and demonstrates an extraordinary sequence of events that led to the preservation of both the dinosaur remains and the insect in amber. The study detailing this discovery has been published in Scientific Reports.
Topics:science##amber#cretaceousperiod#dinosaurfossil#hadrosaur#paleontology#science-and-environment
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