Rare tardigrade fossil discovered in 16-million-year-old amber; pic surfaces

Researchers, including those from Harvard University, announced just the third-ever tardigrade fossil on record. The tardigrade fossil discovery revealed a new genus and species, fully preserved in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber from the Miocene. Measured at just over half a millimetre, it has been identified as a relative of the modern living tardigrade superfamily, Isohypsibioidea.