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![An illustration of a fossil horn coral by William Martin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Aspidopleura_baltica_%28dorsal_habitus%29.jpg/100px-Aspidopleura_baltica_%28dorsal_habitus%29.jpg)
- ... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
- ...that Venus figurines are Palaeolithic figures of women (example pictured), made in Eurasia between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago?
- ... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region?
- ... that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
- ... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
![An illustration of a fossil of Prodryas persephone](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bluestonehenge_digital_reconstruction_-_oval_configuration.png/100px-Bluestonehenge_digital_reconstruction_-_oval_configuration.png)
- ... that a team of archaeologists has recently discovered the remains of a 5000-year old circle of bluestone monoliths, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Stonehenge?
- ... that Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle (pictured) has the longest recumbent stone of any recumbent stone circle?
- ...that the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire?
- ... that Jacques Cauvin said the Neolithic Revolution moved into Anatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
- ...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?