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![A fossilized leaf of Orontium wolfei](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Orontium_wolfei_02.jpg/100px-Orontium_wolfei_02.jpg)
- ... that the pattern of the veins on fossil leaves of the extinct golden-club Orontium wolfei confirm it as a member of the arum family?
- ... that the Albian 100-million-year-old fossil wasp Myanmymar (pictured) is only half a millimetre long?
- ... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?
- ... that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic?
- ... that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite?
![A fossil of Titanomyrma gigantea](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Titanomyrma_gigantea_SMFMEI00998.jpg/100px-Titanomyrma_gigantea_SMFMEI00998.jpg)
- ... that the discovery of the fossil giant ant Titanomyrma (pictured with a hummingbird) in Wyoming indicates that warmth-loving fauna spread through the north between Europe and America during hot spells in the Eocene?