Researchers at the University of Manchester in England and their colleagues in Berlin, Germany have discovered what they believe is the smallest fossil of a mite, or any insect for that matter, in a 3D scan of tree resin from the Baltic region. The fossilized mite is only 176 microns long, or 0.000176 meters long.
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