User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/10


 * ... that only three possible fossils of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster oligocenica have been reported?
 * ... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American coal balls (example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
 * ... that the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral"?
 * ... that a 2,600-year-old human brain, thought to be one of the oldest ever found, was discovered on the site of the University of York's new campus?
 * ... that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (head pictured) was first described in 1868?
 * ... that the broad-fronted moose was probably the largest species of deer that has ever existed?
 * ... that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?
 * ...  that at just over 18 mm, Fibla carpenteri  is the largest species of snakefly  known from amber?
 * ... that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
 * ... that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor, Cornwall, was only rediscovered in 1954?