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 * ... that highlights from 19th century ichnology include the discovery of protomammal tracks in England, dinosaur footprints in Massachusetts, and the mysterious hand-shaped Chirotherium tracks (pictured)?
 * ...that the proglacial lakes of Minnesota were massive freshwater lakes covering many times the area of the Great Lakes at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation?
 * ... that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala?
 * ... that more than half of the Kappa V Archaeological Site (flooding pictured) has been destroyed by wave wash erosion?
 * ... that the fossil yew Taxus masonii was described from fifteen fossils collected from 1942 to 1989?
 * ...that Tomotley, a Native American historic site in Monroe County, Tennessee, is currently submerged by an artificial lake?
 * ... that during the 20th century, the first large-scale excavation of dinosaur footprints was undertaken in Texas for an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History?
 * ... that the extinct plant genus Dillhoffia can't be placed into a flowering plant family at this time?
 * ... that Indiana`s Epsilon II is a rare example of a well-preserved upland archaeological site from the Archaic period?
 * ... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor impact?