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 * ...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
 * ...that the Stag-moose (Cervalces scotti) went extinct about 11,500 years ago, part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals toward the end of the most recent ice age?
 * ...that American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska?
 * ... that Manot 1, a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals?
 * ... that Mesotherium ("middle beast") (skull pictured) was so named because its discoverer believed it was an intermediate between rodents and pachyderms?