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... that the fossil genus Astreptolabis (pictured) is one of four described Burmese amber earwigs?
... that Xinjiangtitan is a 32-metre sauropod dinosaur from Xinjiang in China?
... that a fossil of the extinct sea scorpion Eurypterus (restoration pictured) was once thought to be a catfish?
... that the extinct brown lacewing Cretomerobius is known from both the Cretaceous and Eocene?
... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?

... that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
... that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
... that Leptofoenus pittfieldae is the only species of Leptofoenus documented from the West Indies and the only member of Leptofoenus in the fossil record?
... that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons (pictured) has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?