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 * ... that highlights from the history of hadrosaur research include the first dinosaur fossils to be mounted in a museum, the colossal Shantungosaurus, and Maiasaura nesting grounds in Montana?
 * ... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
 * ... that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?
 * ... that, in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus, the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
 * ... that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
 * ... that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
 * ... that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?
 * ... that of the three described species in the Eocene bulldog ant genus Avitomyrmex, one species is known only from worker caste individuals?
 * ... that the extinct Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Kenya was the largest true crocodile and may have eaten early human ancestors?
 * ... that historical therizinosaur research misinterpreted these unusual bird-like herbivorous dinosaurs as giant turtles, semiaquatic fish-eaters, and tree-climbing insectivores?