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- ... that paleontologists have discovered the fossilized eggs of cephalopods, fishes, and reptiles, with some dinosaur eggs (pictured) being preserved with pathological shell deformities?
- ... that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset, England and Tennessee, US?
- ... that the extinct trapdoor spiders Baltocteniza and Electrocteniza were both identified from specimens in Baltic amber?
- ... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor impact?
- ... that the extinct pseudoscorpion Pseudogarypus synchrotron is named for the synchrotron imaging equipment?
- ... that, on Midsummer's Eve, the sun is said to set over the tip of the largest stone in the Scorhill stone circle, suggesting the circle may have had a purpose in archaeoastronomy?
- ...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
- ... that the fossil ant genus Yantaromyrmex (pictured) is found in four amber deposits in Europe?
- ...that it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934?
- ... that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps?