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By around 20,000 BP the climate was so cold, with much of Britain under ice and the rest a polar desert, so that little life could survive, and the glacial fauna also went extinct. The climate began to warm again around 11,700 BP, entering the present climatic period known as the Holocene. Animals repopulated Britain and Ireland.
There is evidence from animal bones and flint tools found in coastal deposits near Happisburgh in Norfolk that early humans were present in Britain over 800,000 years ago. [8] The archaeological site at Happisburgh lies underneath glacial sediments from the Anglian glaciation of 450,000 years ago. [ 9 ]
This is a partial list of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom, arranged by genus alphabetically. List of dinosaurs Genus Picture Period Discovery locations and dates Acanthopholis Cretaceous (late) Folkestone, Kent in c. 1865 Gault, Kent in 2000 Altispinax Cretaceous (early) Battle, East Sussex in 1856 Anoplosaurus Cretaceous (early) Cambridgeshire, no later than 1878 Aristosuchus Cretaceous ...
List of extinct animals of the British Isles – many species listed became extinct due to the retreat of Arctic conditions after the last Ice Age or due to man, many now surviving in the Arctic. List of extinct plants of the British Isles; Insular dwarfism; Insular gigantism; Fauna of Great Britain; Fauna of Ireland; Flora of Great Britain
The names used for glaciations and interglacials are those with historic usage for Britain and may not reflect the full climate detail of modern studies. Dates for the Paleolithic are given as Before Present (BP), which uses 1 January 1950 as the commencement date of the age scale.
Films set in prehistoric Britain (5 P) H. Homo heidelbergensis (1 C, 4 P) I. Iron Age Britain (11 C, 41 P) P. Prehistoric Scotland (6 C, 8 P)
List of extinct animals of Romania List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits , California, United States List of fossil species in the London Clay , England
Rock art found in the Achnabreac forest near Lochgilphead includes some of the largest ring marks in Britain. It is likely that the site is connected with nearby Kilmartin Glen, suggesting a millennium-long use of the latter. (S) [76] 1600–1100 South Uist: Cladh Hallan, the only site in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found. (O, S ...