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![An Amarantoraphidia preserved in amber](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/ZooKeys-204-001-g007_Amarantoraphidia_01.jpg/84px-ZooKeys-204-001-g007_Amarantoraphidia_01.jpg)
- ... that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies?
- ... that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail?
- ... that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
- ... that the extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
- ... that Andiva (fossil pictured), an enigmatic animal that lived 555 millions of years ago, perhaps had a convex carapace?
![A fossil of Ornatifilum](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Sherwood-Pike_Gray_1985.jpg/19px-Sherwood-Pike_Gray_1985.jpg)
- ...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
- ... that Carnufex is an extinct relative of crocodiles that lived 231 million years ago in North Carolina?
- ...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
- ...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
- ... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?