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 * ... that the large prehistoric amphibian Cyclotosaurus had a skull up to 70 cm long?


 * ...that Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos, having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?


 * ... that the earliest evidence for domesticated wheat and barley comes from Iraq ed-Dubb in Jordan and dates to the mid-10th millennium BC?


 * ... that Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?


 * ... that the recently described synapsid Raranimus (pictured) is the most basal member of the order Therapsida, from which mammals are a descendant taxon?