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 * ...that Spanish artifacts excavated at Citico, Tennessee suggest that the historic Native American site may have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567?
 * ... that the practice of insect husbandry by ants is at least 15 million years old?
 * ... that the fossil maple Acer taurocursum is named for its type locality, the "Bull Run flora"?
 * ... that the Hovey Lake Archaeological District in Indiana's southwestern corner is endangered by flooding, oil derricks, bird hunters, and vandals?
 * ... that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset, England and Tennessee, US?
 * ...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
 * ...that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
 * ... that the extinct ant Acanthognathus poinari had jaws like its modern relatives?
 * ... that Calakmul (pictured) was one of the largest and most powerful Maya cities?
 * ...that despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?