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 * ...that the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge?


 * ... that the Famatinian orogeny occurred long before the rise of the Andes in what is now western South America?


 * ... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas (pictured) were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?


 * ... that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?


 * ... that the extinct crocodyliform Sebecus (skull pictured) was named after Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god?