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 * ... that the Hilda mega-bonebed is Canada's largest dinosaur bonebed, preserving thousands of the horned dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus across an area of 2.3 square kilometers?
 * ... that the oldest association between Trypanosoma, which causes Chagas disease, and its vector, the assassin bug Triatoma, is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus?
 * ... that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals, including early humans?
 * ... that the first described fossil of Aphaenogaster mersa (illustrated) had a white mold coating?
 * ... that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology?
 * ... that Arizonasaurus had a large sail along its back made of the spines on its vertebrae?
 * ... that Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
 * ... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
 * ... that the scorpionfly family Eorpidae has a single genus, Eorpa, described in 2013?
 * ... that based on its skull anatomy, the small Early Jurassic crocodile relative Dibothrosuchus (reconstruction pictured) probably had a keen sense of hearing and was vocal like modern crocodiles?