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![David Tab Rasmussen](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/David_Tab_Rasmussen_-_Wash_Univ%2C_St._Louis_2006_%28cropped%29.jpg/91px-David_Tab_Rasmussen_-_Wash_Univ%2C_St._Louis_2006_%28cropped%29.jpg)
- ... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?
- ...that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
- ... that the extinct buthid scorpion Uintascorpio was first placed in the family Vaejovidae?
- ...that Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
- ... that the fossil maple species Acer kenaicum was suggested to be an ancestor of silver maples?
![Illustrated wings of Archiinocellia oligoneura](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Archiinocellia_oligoneura_Handlirsch_1910.jpg/89px-Archiinocellia_oligoneura_Handlirsch_1910.jpg)
- ...that Archiinocellia is noted to be the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
- ... that the extinct wasps Dryinus grimaldii and Dryinus rasnitsyni are distinguishable by the modified claws on their front legs?
- ... that the cat gap is a period in the fossil record (cat illustration pictured) of approximately 25 to 17 million years ago in which there were few cats or cat-like species?
- ... that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
- ... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?