- ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus (pictured), were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
- ... that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago, New Zealand?
- ... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s?
- ... that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix?
- ... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing, but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
- ... that an anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
- ... that the fossil crane fly Elephantomyia baltica is known from a single male in amber?
- ... that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster praerelicta is entombed in amber with three flies, two springtails, and a wasp?
- ... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
- ... that the extinct crab Metacarcinus starri from Washington state is related to the graceful rock crab?