User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Asia/DYK/22
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- ... that modern humans have been found to inhabit various countries for periods ranging from almost 200,000 years to less than 800 years?
- ... that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material resembling limestone when fired?
- ... that Entropezites, Mycetophagites, and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record?
- ... that the extinct Eocene butterfly Prodryas persephone (pictured) from the Florissant Fossil Beds is the best preserved fossil lepidopteran discovered to date?
- ...that Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?