User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/9


 * ... that a fossilized dragon has been found in Poland?
 * ... that one species of the extinct Eocene bulldog ant Ypresiomyrma reached up to 25 mm in length?
 * ... that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
 * ... that the North Atlantic breakup resulted in the separation of Eurasia from North America, forming the North Atlantic Ocean?
 * ... that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water?
 * ... that the wasp Deinodryinus velteni (pictured) is one of only three Deinodryinus species described from the fossil record?
 * ... that Jurellana tithonia, dating from the Jurassic, is the earliest known porcelain crab?
 * ... that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
 * ... that Jotnian sedimentary rocks are the oldest known sediments in the Baltic area that have not been subject to the geological process of metamorphism?
 * ... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?