User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/34

... that coal balls are not made of coal?
... that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail?
... that plates in the pre-Columbian Wulfing style, likely made by the same workshop at Cahokia, have been found as far apart as Oklahoma, Illinois, and Florida?
... that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water?
... that the North Atlantic breakup resulted in the separation of Eurasia from North America, forming the North Atlantic Ocean?

... that a mummy was found in a cave in Wyoming?
... that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in Coahuila, Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
... that over the course of the history of stegosaur research, their iconic back plates have been thought to function as armor plating, to regulate body temperature, or to attract mates?
... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?