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 * ... that although the Pacific sand crab can only crawl and burrow backwards (pictured), it can also tread water?
 * ... that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
 * ... that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record?
 * ... that Praunus flexuosus, the first mysid shrimp ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
 * ... that the seeds of the European sedge Carex pilulifera may be dispersed by the ant Myrmica ruginodis?
 * ... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?