Discovery of a salamander in amber sheds light on evolution of Caribbean islands
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
More than 20 million years ago, a short struggle took place in what is now the Dominican Republic, resulting in one animal getting its leg bitten off by a predator just before it escaped. But in the confusion, it fell into a gooey resin deposit, to be fossilized and entombed forever in amber.