AN ENTIRE LIZARD TRAPPED IN AMBER IS GAZING BACK AT US FROM 110 MILLION YEARS AGO

SYFY ^ | 18 Feb 2022 | Elizabeth Rayne

[DUMBGRUNT]

Creatures get trapped in amber all the time, but most prehistoric finds are insects. Amber is a great material for preserving arthropods because of their already tough shells that will hold on even if the insides disintegrate. But what about a lizard? Retinosaurus hkamentiensis is a new extinct species of lizard that was unexpectedly found trapped in Burmese amber. No one expected an entire reptile to be preserved so well, from its scaly skin down to its skeleton.

[calenel]

Read that number again.

[Born in 1950]

Sure does. Posing on my porch…

[libh8er]

“110 million years ago”

Does anyone believe these numbers ?

[EinNYC]

Poor little guy. I have several tiny lizards native to AZ, NM, etc. as pets. They are very cute. I’d hate to see any of them wind up like that.

[blueunicorn6]

Puff the magic leezard lived in some amber
And frolicked in a car that needed more camber

Yeah, well try coming up with something that rhymes with amber.

[Jamestown1630]

Very nice photo of a handsome little devil!

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hillary is running out of places to hide!

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, "Jurassic Park" angle:

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[SunkenCiv]

110-Million-Year-Old Lizard Found in Burmese Amber
by Enrico de Lazaro
Feb 9, 2022
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/retinosaurus-hkamtiensis-10535.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessee Nana!

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”well try coming up with something that rhymes with amber.”

Leave the thinking to the internet...

https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=amber&typeofrhyme=adv&loc=advlink

[BiteYourSelf]

First thing I thought of.🤔

[BiteYourSelf]

How about amberlance.😁

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Is the author Locaro related to the “lizard”? Their names are pretty close, don’t you think?

[blueunicorn6]

Let’s try it.

Puff the magic leezard lived in some amber
And frolicked in the amberlance

I think you should submit it to The Atlantic magazine.

For about a year, they ran nothing but poems about deer relieving themselves in the woods.

I like amberlance better than “the deer copped a squat”.

[Jamestown1630]

What kind of rhyme are we going for? There are lots.

A place name might work; or you could make a longer poem and employ 'enjambment'.

Or, you could change 'amber' to 'resin'...and still have pretty much the same problem :-)

[blueunicorn6]

Enjambment….

See! There’s the rhyme!

I could write a poem about a leezard who was in the roller derby!

Puff the magic leezard lived in some amber
And frolicked at the roller rink as a jammer

Somehow, we’ve got to insert something about a deer relieving himself in the woods…..

Puff the magic leezard lived in some amber
And frolicked at the roller rink as a jammer
And then he whizzed on an amberlance

I don’t see how they could reject this at The Atlantic.

[TigersEye]

15 minutes could save you 110 million years in amber!

[Honest Nigerian]

Camber
Tambour
Your turn …..

[dfwgator]

Bring da Amber Lamps.