Portal:Paleontology/DYK/12


 * ... that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies?
 * ... that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail?
 * ... that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
 * ... that the extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
 * ... that Andiva (fossil pictured), an enigmatic animal that lived 555 millions of years ago, perhaps had a convex carapace?
 * ...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
 * ... that Carnufex is an extinct relative of crocodiles that lived 231 million years ago in North Carolina?
 * ...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
 * ...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
 * ... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?