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[[File:Raranimus.jpg|100x100px|right|A life restoration of Raranimus]] |
[[File:Raranimus dashankouensis (2).jpg|100x100px|right|A life restoration of Raranimus]] |
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{{*mp}}... that the recently described [[synapsid]] '''''[[Raranimus]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is the most [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Therapsida]], from which [[mammal]]s are a descendant taxon? |
{{*mp}}... that the recently described [[synapsid]] '''''[[Raranimus]]''''' ''(pictured)'' is the most [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Therapsida]], from which [[mammal]]s are a descendant taxon? |
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{{*mp}}... that the extinct [[sweat bee]] '''''[[Halictus? savenyei]]''''' was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described? |
{{*mp}}... that the extinct [[sweat bee]] '''''[[Halictus? savenyei]]''''' was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described? |
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- ... that the Jurassic conifer Araucaria mirabilis (cone pictured) of Argentina may have been a primary food for sauropods?
- ... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
- ... that highlights from the history of ankylosaur research include one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and a dinosaur with armored eyelids?
- ...that American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska?
- ... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?

- ... that the recently described synapsid Raranimus (pictured) is the most basal member of the order Therapsida, from which mammals are a descendant taxon?
- ... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
- ... that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
- ... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
- ... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont Tiarajudens were uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth?