User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/29

... that the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén in Guatemala was built to offset damage from a highway construction project?
... that the fossil stick insect Eoprephasma was described from two isolated forewings?
... that the extinct North American Oligocene-age vulture Phasmagyps may be the oldest New World vulture?
... that the extinct ant Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is the only Acanthostichus species found in the West Indies?
... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?

... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?
... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?
... that Mayan eccentrics (pictured) were often buried under monuments and buildings?
... that the extinct mantidfly Feroseta prisca has bristle-covered pterostigma?
... that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?