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 * ... that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
 * ... that the extinct brown lacewing Cretomerobius is known from both the Cretaceous and Eocene?
 * ... that, in one study on the aetosaur Redondasuchus, the orientation of a diagram in the paper may have contributed to the misidentification of its holotype as a left scute rather than a right?
 * ... that the extinct lobe-finned fish Laccognathus embryi (reconstruction pictured) had fangs up to 3.8 cm (1.5 in) long?
 * ... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?
 * ... that the Maya city of Ixkun in Guatemala erected one of the tallest stone stelae in the entire Petén Basin?
 * ... that the extinct planthopper Emiliana was described from a single 47 million year old wing?
 * ... that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology?
 * ... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
 * ... that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?