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1. The Berlin Specimen is the best-known example of what rare animal, believed to have been one of the world's first birds?
2. Ernst Stromer discovered the first dinosaurs in Egypt, including what sail-backed dinosaur that might be the largest carnivorous dinosaur that ever existed?
3. Neander Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia was the naming source, and first place of the discovery, of what sort of animal?
4. The Messel Pit, a disused quarry/UNESCO world heritage site, has been the source of some of the finest fossils of what era, that occurred long after dinosaurs had died out?
5. Hans Reck was the first person to discover a hominid skeleton in Olduvai Gorge, and his findings drew what famed anthropologist to the area?
6. Joseph Oberndorfer acquired the first known, well-preserved, skeleton of what small theropod discovered in Bavaria in 1859?
7. Unintentionally preserved by volcanic ash during the Permian period, Chemnitz contains what sort of fossil preserve?
8. What type of carnivorous bird, which once preyed on the giant moas of New Zealand, was first described by and thus named after Julius von Haast?
9. Werner Janensch discovered a particularly large sauropod in Tanzania. Because sauropods are built like a certain African mammal, what is it called?
10. Fossils of what animal have been found with people in burial sites around Bonn, proving that they have been man's best friends for at least 14,000 years?
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