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  • ... that Nemicolopterus crypticus is the smallest known pterosaur
  • ... that the Madagascan prehistoric frog Beelzebufo ampinga reached a length of 40 centimetres and a weight of 4 kilograms.
  • ... that the Antioquia Brush-finch which is only known by three 20th century museum specimens was first described in 2007.
  • ... that Josephoartigasia monesi is the heaviest known rodent fossil
  • ... that Pyramid Valley is the largest paleontological site for Moa fossils in New Zealand.
  • ... that the Cyprus Spiny Mouse was rediscovered in October 2007 after no reliable signs in 27 years.
  • ... that Vanvoorstia bennettiana was listed as first and only protist in the IUCN Red List in 2004.
  • ... that all existing individuals of the extinct in the wild plant species Cosmos atrosanguineus in cultivation come from one single clone?
  • ... that the Hawai'i 'Ō'ō was extensively hunted for its yellow axillary feathers
  • ... that the whole population of the San Benedicto Rock Wren was exterminated on one single day during the eruption of the San Benedicto Island volcano in 1952.
  • ...that the extinct Giant Hoopoe and St. Helena Earwig were scientifically named after the Greek myth figures Antaios and Heracles.
  • ...that an English cigarette brand and a ginger wine were named after the Great Auk
  • ...that there was once thought that the Great Auk was a penguin even before the real penguins were scientifically described.
  • ...that Press Clay Southworth, a 14-year-old boy from Ohio, has seen and shot the last passenger pigeon in the wild in March, 1900.
  • ...that the largest bird flock ever observed in the United States was estimated by naturalist Alexander Wilson to 2,230,272,000 passenger pigeons.
  • ...that famed Italian tenor Paolo Tosti has performed a song about Martha, the last passenger pigeon.
  • ...that a delicatessen wholesaler in New York has sold 18,000 passenger pigeons on one single day in 1855.
  • ...that 5000 full-time passenger pigeon hunters exist in 1879
  • ...that one billion passenger pigeons where killed alone in Michigan in 1879
  • ...that despite old reports the "lighthouse keeper's cat Tibbles" was not alone responsible for the extinction of the Stephens Island Wren in 1895.
  • ...that the last Thylacine Benjamin which had died in 1936 was actually a female
  • ...that the Wake Island Rail was hunted to extinction by starved Japanese soldiers in 1945.
  • ...that the Carolina Parakeet was the only endemic parrot in the United States.