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- ... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
- ... that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China, dating from the Middle Jurassic?
- ... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
- ... that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand?
- ... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas (pictured) were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?