A Dozen Cretaceous Lizards Were Perfectly Preserved In Amber

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Lizard preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Daza et al. Sci. Adv. 2016

A dozen lizards have been discovered in Cretaceous-aged amber from Myanmar. These specimens represent multiple species from five major lineages, and they’re the oldest, and likely most diverse, tropical lizard assemblage ever recovered from amber, according to findings published in Science Advances this week.