User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/15
![An illustration of a fossil horn coral by William Martin](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Drombeg_stone_circle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_239919.jpg/100px-Drombeg_stone_circle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_239919.jpg)
- ... 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?
![An illustration of a fossil of Prodryas persephone](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/ZooKeys-204-001-g004_Necroraphidia_fig1.jpg/77px-ZooKeys-204-001-g004_Necroraphidia_fig1.jpg)
- ... 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?