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 * ... that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?
 * ... that a previously unknown script found on an altar at the Grakliani Hill archeological site in Georgia is 1000 years older than any other script in the Caucasus?
 * ...that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
 * ... that the extinct Eocene butterfly Prodryas persephone (pictured) from the Florissant Fossil Beds is the best preserved fossil lepidopteran discovered to date?
 * ... that the 1848 discovery of Neanderthal remains (pictured) in Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar, was the second in history, but its significance was not realised for another sixteen years?
 * ... that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China, dating from the Middle Jurassic?
 * ... that four-eyed harvestmen known as Tetrophthalmi once roamed the Earth?
 * ... that Acteosaurus tommasinii, a species of aquatic lizard from the upper Cretaceous is similar to mosasauroids and modern snakes?
 * ... that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish?
 * ... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?