Carboniferous of Europe: a swampy palaeoenvironment with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is the stem of a giant horsetail – calamites (the one growing at an odd angle). The winged insect climbing a horsetail (equisetum) is a primitive cockroach (Manoblatta sp). The flying insects are the large dragonflies (meganeura). At the top centre of the image is a Homoioptera with a pair of long tails. In the front of its wings, it has a pair of flap-like protonal paranota. Protonal paranota are not found today on winged insects and are probably remnants of the early evolution of insects' wings. Coming out of its burrow is a mesothelae spider. I was told that there is not much information available about these spiders, but they are most likely to have had a segmented body, and may have lived in burrows. There is an amphibian resting beyond the calamite trunk, at the base of a lepidodendron trunk.

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An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans.

above: Caveman Willem Dafoe While most sports fans will be busy watching large men grunt as they play the NFL Championship game tomorrow, I thought I'd introduce you to a different sort of Troglodyte today: the celebrity caveman. The following images are entries by various computer artists from six different Worth1000 Effects contests in which they were asked to combine Celebrities with Neanderthals using Photoshop and/or other effects software. Gene Hackman: George Clooney: Morgan Freeman: Tommy Lee Jones: Hugh Laurie: Snoop Lion: Kate Winslet: Nick Nolte: Al Pacino: Sean Connery: Robert deNiro: Daniel Craig: Harrison Ford: Shakira: Will Smith: Jake Gyllenhall: Tobey Maguire: Sean Penn: Danny Trejo: I chose the above twenty images from six different Celebrity Neanderthal Contests from the past three years on Worth1000, the most recent of which ended about 3 weeks ago. My selection was based on the executions or humor quotient. Several entries were poorly executed, some looked like trolls and still others like zombies. I chose what I personally felt were the 20 most entertaining. Please note: these images have been cropped for better visibility and therefore are missing the Worth1000 watermark. To see all of the original entries in the contests, visit the following links (there does not seem to be a 4th contest despite the numbered names): Celebrity Neaderthals 1 Celebrity Neaderthals 2 Celebrity Neaderthals 3 Celebrity Neanderthals 5 Celebrity Neaderthals 6 Celebrity Neaderthals 7 About Worth1000 Worth1000 is the top creative contest site in the world. Every day they run lots of creative competitions of all types, including Effects contests (otherwise known as photochop or photoshop contests), photography contests, illustration contests, writing contests and more forms of multimedia.

The life-sized picture of a wild pig found in a remote cave is thought to be 45,000 years old.

Arthropleura (meaning “jointed ribs”) was a large millipede from the Carboniferous period 320 to 299 million years ago, and was the largest known land arthropod ever. Like all millipedes it is thought to have been herbivorous, though we do not have any coprolites or preserved heads to confirm. Arthropleura was a giant millipede, it grew 2.5 meters(8.2 feet) in length, as long as a car, and was covered in hard armored plating. In December 20, 2021, the largest Arthropleura fossil was as big as a

“I love these character studies of Neanderthals by the artist Tom Björklund. So rarely are they pictured as if they were real people. See his blog and Facebook for more. https://t.co/TjJzKjTJV9 https://t.co/xs1ToCYlzu”