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 * ... that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?
 * ... that the Eocene maple Acer clarnoense is not found in the Clarno Formation even though the species was named after it?
 * ... that the extinct Pliocene pine Pinus matthewsii is thought to have been a colonizing tree?
 * ... that Ambondro, which lived in Madagascar about 167 million years ago, is the oldest known mammal with modern, tribosphenic molars?
 * ... that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus ambiguus has a spiny petiole?
 * ... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
 * ... that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea?
 * ... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
 * ... that Manot 1, a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals?