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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]).
Following the arrival of Panthera (spelaea) fossilis the lion-sized sabertooth cat Homotherium and the "European jaguar" Panthera gombaszoegensis became much rarer, [24] ultimately becoming extinct in Europe during the late Middle Pleistocene, with competition with lions suggested to be a likely important factor. [27] [28]
In 370 CE the Greco-Roman orator Themistius mentioned that lions had disappeared from Thessaly, their last Balkan stronghold. [C] Lions were also hunted historically across Transcaucasia, and were reportedly common in the ungulate-rich Kura-Araz and Mughan plains, up to the Absheron Peninsula, until 900 CE. [26] European leopards
S. borealis is now extinct and the near-threatened S. tatarica is now limited to the steppe in Kazakhstan and Mongolia Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) formerly inhabited Europe as far north as Great Britain at the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, becoming extinct in Europe around 30,000 years ago Reconstruction of the five phenotypes of ...
The shy Australian animals died after only a century of European settlement. Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...