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![A life restoration of stag-moose with a human to scale](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Life_restoration_cervalces_scotti.jpg/100px-Life_restoration_cervalces_scotti.jpg)
- ...that the Stag-moose (Cervalces scotti) went extinct about 11,500 years ago, part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals toward the end of the most recent ice age?
- ... that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite?
- ... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?
- ... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops (pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration?
- ... that the extinct Miocene hickory Carya washingtonensis is known from over 50 nuts found as a rodent cache within a petrified stump?
![Franz Hilgendorf](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf.jpg/78px-Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf.jpg)
- ... that the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II?
- ... that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets?
- ... that Stephen Jay Gould once called Donald Prothero "the best punctuated equilibrium researcher on the West Coast"?
- ... that the only known specimen of the early crocodile relative Stegomosuchus was kept in the discoverer's yard for several years before being given over for study?
- ...that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?