A 99-million-year-old lizard tail found in Myanmar amber offers the first direct fossil evidence of ancient reptiles shedding their tails |
PC: Palaeontologia Electronica A lizard’s ability to shed its tail to escape danger dates back at least 99 million years, according to a fossil discovered in amber from Myanmar. The specimen preserves a detached tail from the Cretaceous Period, providing the first direct fossil evidence of voluntary tail shedding in a fossil vertebrate.According to the…