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- ... that major discoveries in the history of ceratosaur research include horned predators like Ceratosaurus (pictured), Majungasaurus, and Carnotaurus, as well as a bonebed of the projecting-toothed Masiakasaurus?
- ... that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee, burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period?
- ... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
- ... that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat?
- ... that the shortest fossil termite bug is Termitaradus avitinquilinus?
- ... that Ohio's Indian Mound Reserve includes two prehistoric earthworks (one pictured) and a canyon where a battle was reputedly fought?
- ... that the only male "sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
- ... that Fort Center may be the earliest archaeological site in Florida where maize was cultivated?
- ... that Mastotermes electromexicus was the first giant northern termite described from the New World?
- ... that the oldest association between Trypanosoma, which causes Chagas disease, and its vector, the assassin bug Triatoma, is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus?