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![A scanning electron micrograph of a chitinozoan](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Whole_chitinozoan_cropped.jpg/95px-Whole_chitinozoan_cropped.jpg)
- ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
- ... that the extinct wasps Dryinus grimaldii and Dryinus rasnitsyni are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
- ... that only three possible fossils of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster oligocenica have been reported?
- ... that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic, has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name, "valley head", derives?
- ... that the wings of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster longaeva had "excessively delicate" hairs?
![A diagram of a Sanajeh preserves in a titanosaur nest](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Sanajeh_diagram.jpg/100px-Sanajeh_diagram.jpg)
- ... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
- ... that the specific name of Tambachia trogallas, the type species of the trematopid temnospondyl Tambachia, refers to the Thuringian bratwurst that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?
- ... that Tyrannasorus rex had wings and six legs?
- ... that the existence of a sea monster in Scotland has finally been proven?
- ... that Francisco Javier Muñiz was considered the first important naturalist from Argentina?