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 * ... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
 * ...that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
 * ...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?
 * ... that the Swimming Reindeer (pictured), a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
 * ... that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
 * ...that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
 * ... that the geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy (pictured)?
 * ... that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
 * ...that the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland, Sweden, has rich biodiversity, even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
 * ...that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy (pictured) is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?