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... that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
... 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 the fossil moss Rhizomnium dentatum is preserved in the same amber block as two other mosses and part of a centipede?
... that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
... that the extinct crocodyliform Sebecus (skull pictured) was named after Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god?

... that the 2.0-millimetre (0.079 in) long Nanotermes (pictured) are possibly the smallest adult termites known?
... that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus?
... that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
... that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset, England and Tennessee, US?
... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?