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An Astreptolabis ethirosomatia preserved in amber
... that the fossil genus
Astreptolabis
(pictured)
is one of four described Burmese
amber
earwigs
?
... that
Xinjiangtitan
is a 32-metre
sauropod
dinosaur from
Xinjiang
in China?
... that a
fossil
of the
extinct
sea scorpion
Eurypterus
(restoration pictured)
was once thought to be a
catfish
?
... that the extinct brown lacewing
Cretomerobius
is known from both the Cretaceous and Eocene?
... that the 45,000-year-old remains of
Ust'-Ishim man
are the oldest
modern human
genome to be fully sequenced
to date?
Fossils and interpretive skeletal reconstruction of File:Tinirau clackae.png
... that the
Devonian
stem tetrapod
Tinirau clackae
, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character
Tinirau
in
Polynesian
legend?
... that the extinct wasp
Deinodryinus areolatus
is one of two
Deinodryinus
species known from
Baltic amber
?
... that the
pterosaur
genus
Carniadactylus
was originally classified under the species name
Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi
?
... that
Leptofoenus pittfieldae
is the only
species
of
Leptofoenus
documented from the
West Indies
and the only member of
Leptofoenus
in the
fossil
record?
... that the
ammonite
Hildoceras bifrons
(pictured)
has been used as an
index fossil
to help identify the
age of rocks
?
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