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North Central Europe and the British Isles to Crimea and the Middle Urals: Most recent remains in north Central Europe are dated to 8750 BCE. [2] However, remains have been dated to the late Holocene in Ukraine, and one account describes a large, unidentified, "red-cheeked" ground squirrel in the early 20th century of the Dnipropetrovsk area. [21]
This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of Caucasus Mountains ), whether resident or as regular migrants .
Isola dei Pescatori (meaning Fishermen's Island) is an island in Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. As the most northerly of the three principal Borromean Islands it is also known as Isola Superiore and, with a population of 25 in 2018, it is the only one to be inhabited all year round.
The main islands are Sicily, Sardinia and the Aeolian Islands. Because of the length of the Italian peninsula and the mostly mountainous hinterland, the climate of Italy is highly diverse. In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic .
The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic ). Lying within the temperate region , (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in the hottest regions, but is nevertheless diverse due to the ...
In the early 19th century, due to hunting, the Alpine ibex survived in the Gran Paradiso and Vanoise area. Approximately 60 individual ibex survived here. [5] Ibex were intensively hunted, partly for sport, but also because their body parts were thought to have therapeutic properties: [4] talismans were made from a small cross-shaped bone near the ibex's heart in order to protect against ...
After the collapse of the Roman Empire (5th century AD), lack of maintenance of the irrigation systems [9] associated with a cooling climate phase (i.e. the so-called Migration Period or The Dark Age Cold Period [10] [11]) led to the progressive waterlogging of the Po Valley and the natural depressions on the right side of the Po turned in vast ...
This is a list of amphibians of Europe. It includes all amphibians currently found in Europe . It does not include species found only in captivity or extinct in Europe , except where there is some doubt about this, nor does it currently include species introduced in recent decades.