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![An illustration of a fossil horn coral by William Martin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Panthera_leo_spelaea_MHNT.PAL.2009.0.1_Montmaurin_Pl%C3%A9istoc%C3%A8ne.jpg/100px-Panthera_leo_spelaea_MHNT.PAL.2009.0.1_Montmaurin_Pl%C3%A9istoc%C3%A8ne.jpg)
- ... that the Croatian Natural History Museum exhibited the remains of a cave lion (skull pictured) from Vrtare Male pit cave in Croatia, claimed to be one of the biggest ever found?
- ... that an anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
- ... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
- ... that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods?
- ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
![An illustration of a fossil of Prodryas persephone](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/33_Whitecross_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg/100px-33_Whitecross_Street%2C_Monmouth.jpg)
- ... that a year after excavation of Neolithic and Roman artefacts at 33 Whitecross Street, archaeologists discovered evidence of Middle Stone Age human settlement in Monmouth?
- ...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
- ...that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
- ... that Breitenbach, an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
- ... that unlike living species of the genus, the extinct ant Gesomyrmex pulcher is from Germany rather than Asia?