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Slab and counterslab of the Europejara holotype

Europejara is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur that lived during the Barremian age of the Early Cretaceous epoch in what is now Spain. The only known specimen was found at the La Huérguina Formation of Cuenca, a location noted for its exceptional Konservat-Lagerstätte preservation. In 2012, the new genus and species Europejara olcadesorum was named based on it. The holotype specimen consists of an incomplete, crushed skull (pictured); the bones of the postorbital region are displaced while the mandible is almost complete. The first tapejarid known from Europe, Europejara was also the oldest known member of that group and the oldest known toothless pterosaur at the time of its naming. Researchers have found Europejara to be related to Brazilian tapejarids and, given its age, have used this relationship as evidence for the group's origin on the northern palaeocontinent of Laurasia. Due to the shape of their jaws and skulls, they are believed to have been fruit or seed eaters. (Full article...)

Residents of Pomuch cleaning bones

• ... that residents of Pomuch, in southeastern Mexico, clean the bones of deceased family members (example pictured) as part of Day of the Dead?
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in 1999

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November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

Goaltender mask worn by Jacques Plante

• 1921 – Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain.
• 1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
• 1963 – Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.
• 1981 – The Associated State of Antigua gained independence from the United Kingdom as Antigua and Barbuda.