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Artist's restoration of an Columbian mammoth.

... that the first Columbian mammoth (artist's restoration pictured) found at the Snowmastodon site, an Ice Age fossil dig near Denver, was initially dug out by a construction worker using a bulldozer?
... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
... that Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
... that Krijn is the common name for the first Neanderthal discovered in the Netherlands?
... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?