Aurochs, Bear, Lynx, Elk
Aurochs Aurochs
This cave painting from Lascaux gives a hint of what an Aurochs looked like. Ancient cattle, 2 metres high at the shoulder, Aurochs are thought to have died out in Britain around 1000 BC . European Aurochs lived on to 1627 in Poland.
European Brown Bear
Lynx
Thought to have died out around the Ice Age, new discoveries reveal that lynxes survived in Britain up to 700AD.
Lynx survival
Elk
Elk may have survived the end of the Ice Age and persisted in Britain into the Bronze Age, about 1500 BC
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