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Detailed explanation-1: -And today, in a peer-reviewed paper published in Current Biology, scientists have confirmed this small creature was no bird at all. The original Oculudentavis fossil is preserved in a chunk of amber from the southeast Asian country of Myanmar.

Detailed explanation-2: -Global subnav. An international team, including scientists affiliated with NHM, discovered the skull of a tiny dinosaur trapped in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar. It was about the size of a bee hummingbird, making it the smallest dinosaur discovered yet. The findings were published today in Nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oculudentavis khaungraae is known from a complete skull preserved in Burmese amber, found at the Angbamo site in Tanai Township, Kachin State, northern Myanmar.

Detailed explanation-4: -However, a lesser-known fact is that the discovery of the first dinosaur bones from India came hot on the heels of this. In 1828, just four years later, W H Sleeman found the first two fossils of what would eventually be called the indicus (meaning “Titanic Indian lizard") in Jabalpur Central India.