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- ... that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
- ... that the fossil stick insect Eoprephasma was described from two isolated forewings?
- ... that the extinct North American Oligocene-age vulture Phasmagyps may be the oldest New World vulture?
- ... that the extinct ant Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is the only Acanthostichus species found in the West Indies?
- ... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?
- ... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?
- ... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?
- ... that Mayan eccentrics (pictured) were often buried under monuments and buildings?
- ... that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma?
- ... that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?