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 * ... that the discovery of 189 fossils of the mid-Cambrian Odontogriphus thrust it into the centre of a heated debate about the evolution of molluscs, annelids and brachiopods?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
 * ... that it may not be possible to determine what ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus is?
 * ... that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
 * ... that the name for the extinct birch family genus Kardiasperma is from the Greek words for "heart" and "seed"?
 * ... that the widowed philanthropist Mary Hemenway (pictured), impressed with Frank Cushing's anthropological work among the Zuni, sponsored the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition?
 * ... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found in 108.90 m down a Welsh borehole?
 * ... that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?
 * ... that the type specimen of the extinct tortoise beetle Denaeaspis is only 6.04 mm long?
 * ... that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?