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- ... that highlights from the history of dromaeosaurid research include a skeleton of Velociraptor preserved in combat with a Protoceratops, the gigantic Utahraptor, and tiny four-winged Microraptor?
- ... that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology?
- ... that Easter Aquhorthies stone circle (pictured) is one of the best preserved examples of a recumbent stone circle?
- ... that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
- ...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
- ... that Henri Lavachery, the first professional archaeologist to visit Easter Island, founded the Society of Americanists in Belgium?
- ... that the extinct Gigantoproductus giganteus was the largest known species of brachiopod?
- ... that Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
- ... that the extinct snakefly Alavaraphidia is known from a single female trapped in amber (pictured)?
- ... that according to legend, Wormy hillock henge is the burial site of a dragon?