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A scanning electron micrograph of a chitinozoan
...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the
Palæozoic
fossils
known as
Chitinozoans
(
SEM
image pictured)
represent plants, animals or eggs?
... that the extinct wasps
Dryinus grimaldii
and
Dryinus rasnitsyni
are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
... that only three possible fossils of the extinct ant
Aphaenogaster oligocenica
have been reported?
... that
Calsoyasuchus valleyceps
, an extinct
crocodile relative
from the
Early Jurassic
, has a deep groove in its
skull
from which its
species name
, "valley head", derives?
... that the wings of the extinct ant
Aphaenogaster longaeva
had "excessively delicate" hairs?
A diagram of a Sanajeh preserves in a titanosaur nest
... that the
Late Cretaceous
madtsoiid
snake
Sanajeh
preyed on hatchling
sauropod
dinosaurs
at nesting sites in
India
?
... that the
specific name
of
Tambachia trogallas
, the
type species
of the
trematopid
temnospondyl
Tambachia
, refers to the
Thuringian
bratwurst
that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?
... that
Tyrannasorus rex
had wings and six legs?
... that the existence of
a sea monster
in Scotland has finally been proven?
... that
Francisco Javier Muñiz
was considered the first important naturalist from Argentina?
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