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 * ... that Professor Clive Finlayson has theorized that the genetic similarities between Neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor?
 * ... that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of graptolites in the northern greywacke zone of the Alps, with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her?
 * ... that oviraptorosaurs were thought to be egg-eaters after the discovery of Oviraptor on a nest of presumed Protoceratops eggs, until the nest was recognized as belonging to Oviraptor itself?
 * ... that Andiva (fossil pictured), an enigmatic animal that lived 555 millions of years ago, perhaps had a convex carapace?
 * ... that the first described fossil of Aphaenogaster mersa (illustrated) had a white mold coating?
 * ... that the only fossil of the extinct moth Baltimartyria sat on a paleoentomologist's desk for a number of years before being described in 2011?
 * ...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
 * ... that the Moine Supergroup, a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands, is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland?
 * ... that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge?
 * ... that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?