Portal:Paleontology/DYK/55


 * ... that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth, dire wolf, giant ground sloth, pre-historic bison, camel, and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon?
 * ... that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous)?
 * ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?
 * ...that Castorocauda lutrasimilis, a recently described mammal relative that looked like an otter with a beaver's tail, evolved a semi-aquatic lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
 * ... that the extinct earwig Tytthodiplatys is the oldest confirmed member of its family?
 * ... that a fossilized dragon has been found in Poland?
 * ... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor impact?
 * ... that the shell of the extinct sea urchin Pelanechinus corallina was composed of separate groups of fused plates which resulted in its being flexible?
 * ... that fossils of the extinct sumac Rhus malloryi (pictured) were first published in 1935?
 * ... that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator?