Portal:Paleontology/DYK/1
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- ... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
- ... that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema?
- ... that fossils of the extinct snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae are known mainly from the Northern Hemisphere?
- ... that snakes?
- ... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
- ... that the extinct fossil lepidopterandiscovered to date?
- ...that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?
- ... that paleobotanist Shya Chitaley named an extinct plant species for Cleveland's bicentennial and also had an extinct plant species named for her?
- ... that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
- ... that color patterning?