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 * ... that the fossil genus Astreptolabis (pictured) is one of four described Burmese amber earwigs?
 * ... that Xinjiangtitan is a 32-metre sauropod dinosaur from Xinjiang in China?
 * ... that a fossil of the extinct sea scorpion Eurypterus (restoration pictured) was once thought to be a catfish?
 * ... that the extinct brown lacewing Cretomerobius is known from both the Cretaceous and Eocene?
 * ... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?
 * ... that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
 * ... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
 * ... that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
 * ... that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
 * ... that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons (pictured) has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?