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 * ... that the extinct ant Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti was first described in 1868?
 * ...that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
 * ... that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?
 * ... that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons (pictured) has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?
 * ... that a fossil of the extinct sea scorpion Eurypterus (restoration pictured) was once thought to be a catfish?
 * ...that the geology of London includes abundant fossilized animal remains?
 * ... that the 10,000 year old Pesse canoe, the world's oldest known boat, was found in a Dutch peat bog?
 * ... that the extinct crocodilian Arenysuchus was part of the first evolutionary radiation of crocodyloids?
 * ... that the extinct ant Attopsis was fossilized in what may have been a lagoon?
 * ... that divers from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology discovered the Mesolithic settlement of Bouldnor Cliff with the help of a lobster?