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 * ... that the Albian 100-million-year-old fossil wasp Myanmymar (pictured) is only half a millimetre long?


 * ... that jars uncovered at Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountains contained wine and resin residue which suggested that the inhabitants were making a wine similar to Retsina over 7 millennia ago?


 * ... that the owner of the prehistoric Tell Ezou in Syria has expressed an interest to turn it into an olive plantation?


 * ... that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps?


 * ... that the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns?