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 * ... 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?
 * ... 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?