In a case worthy of Sherlock Holmes, researchers are trying to figure out exactly when and where in the world a long-fingered lizard got trapped in the sticky sap of a tree.
Over time, that sap, or tree resin, turned into amber, preserving the lizard’s remains, including its textured skin. This unique lizard-amber block somehow came into the possession of a man who donated it to the Miller Museum of Geology at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada in the 1980s, but the man didn’t report the artifact’s age or provenance.
