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- ... that the cretaceous subfamily Sphecomyrminae has not been included in several recent phylogenetic studies of the ant family?
- ... that one of the Stone Age Lancken-Granitz dolmens (entrance pictured) was used as a shelter by the East German army?
- ... that the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomedeia is one of the earliest known sites in Macedonia, dated to 6250–6050 BC?
- ... that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous)?
- ... that the fossil crane fly Elephantomyia baltica is known from a single male in amber?
- ...that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?
- ... that the 2010 excursion of the Clifton Antiquarian Club to the Gower Peninsula led to the discovery of what may be the oldest rock art in the British Isles?
- ... that the existence of a sea monster in Scotland has finally been proven?
- ...that Pictish stones are the largest visual relics of Picts of Scotland?
- ... that Arthropleuridea is an extinct class of myriapods which includes, at over 2 meters long, the largest terrestrial arthropods that ever lived?