Portal:Paleontology/DYK/22


 * ... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?
 * ...that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
 * ... that the extinct buthid scorpion Uintascorpio was first placed in the family Vaejovidae?
 * ...that Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
 * ... that the fossil maple species Acer kenaicum was suggested to be an ancestor of silver maples?
 * ...that Archiinocellia  is noted to be the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
 * ... that the extinct wasps Dryinus grimaldii and Dryinus rasnitsyni are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
 * ... that the cat gap is a period in the fossil record (cat illustration pictured) of approximately 25 to 17 million years ago in which there were few cats or cat-like species?
 * ... that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
 * ... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?