- ... that the first Columbian mammoth (artist's restoration pictured) found at the Snowmastodon site, an Ice Age fossil dig near Denver, was initially dug out by a construction worker using a bulldozer?
- ... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
- ... that Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
- ... that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands?
- ... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?