As of 2019, the largest carnivore (well, mostly, and at least, officially) in the UK is the Badger, an adult boar (male) of which is, on average, just over ten kilograms in weight and just under a meter in length. The largest herbivore in the same region is the Red Deer, the stag of which […]
Not so very long ago – at least in geologic time – a host of now extinct megafauna roamed the earth; then suddenly at the end of the last ice age they vanished. What happened? Many have postulated that a dramatic change in the climate did them in; however in Sharon Levy‘s Once & Future Giants; What […]