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Scientists Discover Tiny Dinosaur Fossil That Rewrites Evolutionary History

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Paleontologists have discovered a fossil of an extraordinarily small dinosaur weighing approximately 0.7 kilograms, lighter than a modern chicken, that is forcing scientists to reconsider evolutionary history. The groundbreaking research was led by American paleontologist Peter Makovicky, whose Slovak parents emigrated from Czechoslovakia just before the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion. The discovery represents a significant addition to the fossil record and challenges existing understanding of dinosaur size evolution during the prehistoric era.

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