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An Anochetus dubius preserved in amber
... that the first described fossil of
Anochetus dubius
is surrounded by a brownish bacterial growth?
... that
amber
fossils
of
ants
carrying the extinct
mealybug
genus
Electromyrmococcus
represent the oldest record of
symbiosis
between mealybugs and
Acropyga
ants?
... that
Aquila bullockensis
, an
extinct
species of
bird
, is the oldest known
true eagle
from
Australia
?
... that the extinct
hazel
species
Corylus johnsonii
(fruit pictured)
resembles three modern hazels found in
China
?
... that the recently discovered
Eocypselus rowei
may be ancestral to both
hummingbirds
and
swifts
?
A life restoration of Araripesuchus patagonicus
... that the
Cretaceous
terrestrial
crocodilian
Araripesuchus
is known from five distinct species, two from
Africa
and the other three from
South America
?
... that
Plesiopithecus
, a
fossil primate
from the late
Eocene
in
Egypt
, closely resembles the
aye-aye
of
Madagascar
and raises questions about the
evolutionary history of lemurs
?
... that the extinct moth
Epiborkhausenites
is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species
Tubuliferola josephinae
and
Hofmannophila pseudospretella
?
... that the extinct amphibian
Cryobatrachus
(restoration pictured)
was discovered in the
Transantarctic Mountains
of
Antarctica
?
... that
fossils
from the
Paleocene
-age
Cerrejón Formation
in
Colombia
are the earliest record of
Neotropical
rainforests
?
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