User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/35


 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus exstinctus was described from only two of the three fossils known to the species author?
 * ... that the Lake Murray Meteorite, discovered in 1933, is the largest Class IIAB octahedrite found in Oklahoma and the fifth largest found in the world?
 * ...  that Archiinocellia   is noted to be the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
 * ... that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
 * ... that the Klondike Mountain Formation has fossil hot springs and is a lagerstätten?
 * ... that Siats, named after a man-eating monster, is the geologically youngest North American allosauroid yet discovered?
 * ... that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
 * ... that the extinct genus Paleopanax is one of the oldest reliable records for the ginseng family?
 * ... that excessive nutrients from volcanoes caused the loss of oxygen in the Western Interior Seaway which linked the Caribbean to the Arctic?
 * ... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?