#  Water bear fossil found in 16-million-year-old amber 

 





November 05, 2021

 

 

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 MCZ Faculty-Curator Javier Ortega-Hernández and graduate student Marc Mapalo, along with colleagues, describe *Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus*, a new fossil tardigrade from Miocene Dominican amber. [Read about the discovery in the Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/big-discovery-of-tiny-rare-tardigrade-fossil/) and [watch this short video to hear Javier talk about the importance of this find](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewMGI3wiUs8).



 

 

 



 

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