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 * ... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
 * ...that Venus figurines are Palaeolithic figures of women (example pictured), made in Eurasia between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago?
 * ... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region?
 * ... that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
 * ... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
 * ... that a team of archaeologists has recently discovered the remains of a 5000-year old circle of bluestone monoliths, about 1 mi from Stonehenge?
 * ... that Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle (pictured) has the longest recumbent stone of any recumbent stone circle?
 * ...that the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire?
 * ... that Jacques Cauvin said the Neolithic Revolution moved into Anatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
 * ...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?