- ... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
- ... that Appianoporites, Margaretbarromyces, and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
- ... that Kairuku grebneffi, an extinct species of penguin, was nearly 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long and weighed 50% more than modern Emperor Penguins?
- ... that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
- ...that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?