New insights reveal that integrating fossil records and genomic data can improve conservation strategies for lizards, suggesting a need for wider data in decision-making.
Conservation decision-making increasingly requires data beyond those from depauperate modern ecosystems. A new study that integrates Pleistocene fossil records of lizards with modern genomic and geographic data provides a roadmap for integrating the past and present to identify specific conservation strategies.
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