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 * ... that the hypothesis that the pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs used their domed skulls in head-butting competitions was first proposed in a work of science fiction?


 * ... that Mureybet was a village in modern-day Syria believed to have been occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC?


 * ... that according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?


 * ... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?


 * ... that Beidha, a major archaeological site near Petra in Jordan, had Natufian, Neolithic and Nabataean occupations?