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 * ... that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
 * ... that the first Columbian mammoth (artist's restoration pictured) found at the Snowmastodon site, an Ice Age fossil dig near Denver, was initially dug out by a construction worker using a bulldozer?
 * ... that the fossil moss Rhizomnium dentatum is preserved in the same amber block as two other mosses and part of a centipede?
 * ... that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
 * ... that the extinct crocodyliform Sebecus (skull pictured) was named after Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god?
 * ... that the 2.0 mm long Nanotermes (pictured) are possibly the smallest adult termites known?
 * ... that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus?
 * ... that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
 * ... that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset, England and Tennessee, US?
 * ... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?