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 * ...that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
 * ... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates?
 * ... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?
 * ... that fossils of the extinct reptile Acallosuchus were found in a cigar box in 1983?
 * ... that fossils of the extinct hazelnut relative Coryloides were informally identified as palm nuts first?
 * ... that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple (fruits pictured)?
 * ...that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?
 * ... that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?
 * ...that the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
 * ... that the remains of the armoured dinosaur Europelta were uncovered in a coal mine in Spain in 2011?