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- ... that only three possible fossils of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster oligocenica have been reported?
- ... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American coal balls (example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
- ... that the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral"?
- ... that a 2,600-year-old human brain, thought to be one of the oldest ever found, was discovered on the site of the University of York's new campus?
- ... that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (head pictured) was first described in 1868?
- ... that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?
- ... that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?
- ... that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber?
- ... that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
- ... that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor, Cornwall, was only rediscovered in 1954?