48 Million Cycle of Life Fossil

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"Forty-eight million years ago, an iguana relative living in what’s now Germany scarfed down an insect with a shimmering exoskeleton. Soon thereafter the lizard’s luck changed—when a juvenile snake gulped it down headfirst....

(then) the snake had the spectacularly bad luck to end up in a death trap: the nearby Messel Pit, a volcanic lake with toxic deep waters and a possible knack for belching out asphyxiating clouds of carbon dioxide."

More at:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/snake-fossil-palaeopython-trophic-levels-food/