User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/8

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  • ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
  • ... that in 2009, Arawak artist and archaeologist George Simon (pictured) and a team of researchers uncovered evidence of human settlements in Guyana that date back to 3,000 BCE?
  • ... that Mesotherium ("middle beast") (skull pictured) was so named because its discoverer believed it was an intermediate between rodents and pachyderms?