Mesolithic humans actively modified European ecosystems through fire and hunting

🌍 150 million years ago, Europe was unrecognisable. Instead of forests, cities, and mountains… much of it was a tropical archipelago of shallow turquoise lagoons, white limestone islands, and warm inland seas. With few large land predators on these isolated islands, smaller life thrived. Pterosaurs soared overhead, while fish like Aspidorhynchus cruised the crystal-clear shallows below. A lost world. A tropical refuge. A glimpse of Late Jurassic Europe. 🦎🌴🌊 Would you survive here? #LateJuras