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 * ... that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (fossilized head pictured) was first described in 1868?
 * ... that the moth lacewing Elektrithone is the first member of its family found in Baltic amber?
 * ... that the leaves of two species of the fossil plant genus Banksieaeformis resemble those of the living Banksia serrata?
 * ... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?
 * ... that the Miocene maple Acer latahense is most similar in appearance to the living Honshū maple?