User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/48


 * ...That the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?
 * ... that six prehistoric meteorite impacts have created large astroblemes affecting the geology of Saskatchewan?
 * ... that Peloroplites was one of the largest nodosaurid dinosaurs, and came from a time when armored dinosaurs in general were attaining large sizes?
 * ...that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
 * ... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
 * ...that American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska?
 * ... that paleobotanist Shya Chitaley named an extinct plant species for Cleveland's bicentennial and also had an extinct plant species named for her?
 * ... that the fossil bee Anthophorula persephone is named for a Greek goddess?
 * ...that the mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000?
 * ... that the Corythosaurus (mounted skeleton pictured) bore a tall, elaborate bony crest atop its skull, which contained elongate nasal passages?