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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://tilde.zone/users/ftrain/statuses/109356776322306063">Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 11:37:32 JST</a><a href="https://tilde.zone/@ftrain" title="ftrain@tilde.zone"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/24891-48-20221206005949.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Ford" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Ford</a></section><article><p>I keep thinking about this lizard preserved in amber from ~50 million years ago. I mean—they were just doing lizard stuff, fell into amber, and 50 million years later they show up on Wikipedia. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko</a> (via <a href="https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ</a>)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/543347#notice-870981">In conversation</a><time datetime="2022-11-17T11:37:32+09:00" title="Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 11:37:32 JST">Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 11:37:32 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109356776322306063" rel="external" title="Sent from tilde.zone via ActivityPub">tilde.zone</a></span></span><a href="https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109356776322306063">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/308286">Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber[1] The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton.[2] While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae,[1] the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea.[3]</a></label><br><a href="https://tilde.zone/system/media_attachments/files/109/356/762/240/137/269/original/c8db4b6cd0c5a0e5.jpeg" rel="external">https://tilde.zone/system/media_attachments/files/109/356/762/240/137/269/original/c8db4b6cd0c5a0e5.jpeg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko">Yantarogekko</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton. While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae, the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea.
References</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: mltshp-cdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ">Yantarogekko</a></h5><div></div></header><div>A single specimen of Yantarogekko balticus, a now-extinct gecko species, trapped in amber. About 54 million years ago, this little dude was climbing on part of a tree, got stuck, then covered in flowing resin, which hardened, landed on some kind of swampy ground, and was then washed away by a stream and deposited far away. Then, in 2005, some human found this little rock with half a lizard inside, which has now been studied, letting scientists know that a gecko's specialized 'sticky footpads' evolved at least 20 million years earlier than previously thought.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 11:37:32 JST Paul Ford
I keep thinking about this lizard preserved in amber from ~50 million years ago. I mean—they were just doing lizard stuff, fell into amber, and 50 million years later they show up on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko (via https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ)
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1. Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber[1] The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton.[2] While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae,[1] the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea.[3]
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  Yantarogekko
  Yantarogekko is an extinct genus of gecko known from a single specimen found trapped in Eocene-aged Baltic amber The remains consist of the anterior half of a body with partially preserved limbs (including preserved toe pads on one limb), lacking a skeleton. While considered in its initial description to be a member of the family Gekkonidae, the limited nature of known remains combined with its morphology not closely resembling any living family of geckos make it impossible to assign it any more precisely than Gekkonoidea. References
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  Yantarogekko
  A single specimen of Yantarogekko balticus, a now-extinct gecko species, trapped in amber. About 54 million years ago, this little dude was climbing on part of a tree, got stuck, then covered in flowing resin, which hardened, landed on some kind of swampy ground, and was then washed away by a stream and deposited far away. Then, in 2005, some human found this little rock with half a lizard inside, which has now been studied, letting scientists know that a gecko's specialized 'sticky footpads' evolved at least 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

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