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 * ... that over the course of the history of stegosaur research, their iconic back plates have been thought to function as armor plating, to regulate body temperature, or to attract mates?
 * ... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
 * ... that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?
 * ... that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?
 * ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?