India, March 12 -- The study could offer insight into how dinosaurs evolved to be small, according to scientists

A group of scientists may have discovered the smallest dinosaur yet. They found the fossilised skull of a dinosaur - the size of a modern hummingbird - trapped in a 99-million-year-old amber in northern Myanmar.

The animal in question would have weighed 2 grams, claimed the scientists in a paper published in the Nature journal.

The fossil represented the smallest dinosaur from the Mesozoic era - about 250 million to 65 million years ago - according to the group.

The discovery suggests miniature body sizes in birds evolved earlier than previously recognised. This may provide insight into how dinosaurs evolved to be small and...