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- ... that highlights from the history of ichthyosaur research (example pictured) include fossils of pregnant females, whale-sized ichthyosaurs from Nevada, and ichthyosaurs with swordfish-like jaws?
- ... that Entropezites, Mycetophagites, and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record?
- ... that fossils of the extinct legume Hymenaea mexicana show several types of insect feeding?
- ... that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum?
- ... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor impact?
- ... that the Ellerbusch Archaeological Site in the U.S. state of Indiana was picked for extensive excavation partly because it was so small?
- ... that, in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Maya city of Sacul was one of the few kingdoms in the southeastern Petén region to use its own Emblem Glyph?
- ... that the Stoner archaeological site in Illinois is unusual for its lack of evidence of substantial occupation by any people other than the Allison-Lamotte culture?
- ... 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 the extinct Eocene maple Acer republicense is known from only one fossil seed?