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During the early-middle Holocene (from around 8,000-6,000 years ago) modern lions colonised Southeast and parts of Central and Eastern Europe, [8] before becoming extinct in Europe likely during classical times [9] (or perhaps as late as the Middle Ages [8]).
The precise cause of its extinction is unclear, but possibly involved environmental change from open habitats to closed forests, changes in prey abundance, as well as human impact, though it is difficult to distentangle the precise causes of its extinction. [4] Cave lions appear to have undergone a population bottleneck that considerably ...
This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands.
P. spelaea, or the cave lion, lived in Eurasia and Beringia during the Late Pleistocene. It became extinct due to climate warming or human expansion latest by 11,900 years ago. [24] Bone fragments excavated in European, North Asian, Canadian and Alaskan caves indicate that it ranged from Europe across Siberia into western Alaska. [25]
Extinct species of lion known from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Asia. One of the largest known species of Panthera. Considered to be the ancestor of P. spelaea. [70] Panthera gombaszoegensis: Europe, possibly Asia and Africa, 2.0 to 0.35 MYA Ranged across Europe, as well as possibly Asia and Africa from around 2 million to 350,000 years ...
Saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Homotherium lived across the globe during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and early Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) epochs ...
that they went extinct due to natural climate change. Life restoration of Thylacoleo carnifex (also known as the marsupial lion) This theory is based on evidence of megafauna surviving until 40,000 years ago, a full 30,000 years after homo sapiens first landed in Australia, and thus that the two groups coexisted for a long time.
The temperate species began to go extinct locally (many survived in southern refugia elsewhere in Europe). With the cooling climate, the sea level fell and by 60,000 BP a land bridge reformed so new or returning species could repopulate Britain.