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 * ...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?


 * ... that the extinct monitor lizard Ovoo gurvel has "mystery bones" in its skull?


 * ...that Jan Czerski (pictured), exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society?


 * ...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?


 * ... that the continental crust below the South China Sea is theorized to have begun splitting apart from the Eurasian Plate around 55 million years ago?