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 * ... that the Croatian Natural History Museum exhibited the remains of a cave lion (skull pictured) from Vrtare Male pit cave in Croatia, claimed to be one of the biggest ever found?
 * ... that an anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
 * ... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
 * ... that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods?
 * ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
 * ... that a year after excavation of Neolithic and Roman artefacts at 33 Whitecross Street, archaeologists discovered evidence of Middle Stone Age human settlement in Monmouth?
 * ...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
 * ...that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
 * ... that Breitenbach, an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
 * ... that unlike living species of the genus, the extinct ant Gesomyrmex pulcher is from Germany rather than Asia?