{"id":31186,"date":"2026-11-04T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/trapped-in-amber-for-99-million-years-a-lizards-tail-reveals-an-ancient-survival-secret\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:40:09","slug":"trapped-in-amber-for-99-million-years-a-lizards-tail-reveals-an-ancient-survival-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/trapped-in-amber-for-99-million-years-a-lizards-tail-reveals-an-ancient-survival-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in Amber for 99 Million Years, a Lizard\u2019s Tail Reveals an Ancient Survival Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/trapped-in-amber-for-99-million-years-a-lizards-tail-reveals-an-ancient-survival-secret\/\" title=\"Trapped in Amber for 99 Million Years, a Lizard\u2019s Tail Reveals an Ancient Survival Secret\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/99-Million-Year-Old-Lizard-Tail-Preserved-in-Amber-777x797.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"99 Million Year Old Lizard Tail Preserved in Amber\" \/><\/a>A clean break in 99-million-year-old amber offers rare direct evidence that ancient lizards shed their tails using a defensive mechanism still common today. A lizard can escape a predator by leaving its tail behind, sometimes with the detached piece still wriggling as the animal makes its getaway. It\u2019s a remarkable defense, but scientists have struggled [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clean break in 99-million-year-old amber offers rare direct evidence that ancient lizards shed their tails using a defensive mechanism still common today. A lizard can escape a predator by leaving its tail behind, sometimes with the detached piece still wriggling as the animal makes its getaway. It\u2019s a remarkable defense, but scientists have struggled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/trapped-in-amber-for-99-million-years-a-lizards-tail-reveals-an-ancient-survival-secret\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trapped in Amber for 99 Million Years, a Lizard\u2019s Tail Reveals an Ancient Survival Secret&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}