User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/15


 * ... that recumbent stone circles are thought to have been used by prehistoric people for rituals involving the moon?
 * ... that fossils of Yelovichnus were initially believed to be the feeding trails of other organisms?
 * ... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?
 * ... that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella?
 * ...that the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania?
 * ... that the Cretaceous snakefly Necroraphidia arcuata takes its name, in part, from the Latin word for "bent" and the Greek word for "dead"?
 * ... that John Edward Marr spent 45 years at the University of Cambridge?
 * ... that the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II?
 * ... that it is all but impossible to match up species known by leaves with those known by trunks in the prehistoric cycad-like genus Cycadeoidea?
 * ...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?