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This 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has an Insect Inside a Lizard Inside a Snake 

Paleontologists have uncovered a fossil that has preserved an insect inside a lizard inside a snake – a prehistoric battle of the food chain that ended in a volcanic lake some 48 million years ago.

Pulled from an abandoned quarry in southwest Germany called the Messel Pit, the fossil is only the second of its kind ever found, with the remains of three animals sitting snug in one another.

We have been lucky to glimpse such a primordial food chain of the snake, that ate a lizard, that had previously treated itself to a beetle, and ended up in a volcanic lake of the time. It is uncertain how the snake died…

Read more: https://www.archaeology-world.com/this-48-million-year-old-fossil-has-an-insect-inside-a-lizard-inside-a-snake/

(via speciesofleastconcern)