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- ...that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
- ... that Pojetaia, Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae, are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna?
- ... that a group of Late Permian mammal relatives called Nanictidopidae (restoration pictured) may have eaten fruit because their small teeth were unsuitable for grinding most plant material?
- ... that the Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland is one of the oldest mines in the world?
- ...that Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos, having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?