Portal:Paleontology/DYK/36
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- ... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?
- ... that unlike its modern-day relative the gharial, the extinct crocodilian Aktiogavialis lived in saltwater?
- ...that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
- ... that the only close modern relative to the fossil ant Eulithomyrmex is Tatuidris?
- ... that the powerful teeth and jaws of Heliopithecus may have played a key role in the spread of Hominoids from Africa into Eurasia, 17 million years ago?
![An Aspidopleura baltica preserved in amber](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Aspidopleura_baltica_%28dorsal_habitus%29.jpg/320px-Aspidopleura_baltica_%28dorsal_habitus%29.jpg)
- ... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
- ... that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma?
- ...that Jan Czerski (pictured), exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society?
- ... that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine?
- ... that the extinct fern Wessiea is known from Miocene fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington?