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 […]
The largest land animal species presently to be found in Great Britain is the Red Stag; after that, the Roe Deer, a few smaller deer, then the Badger and the Fox. However not so very long ago – a few thousand years or so, one would have seen a vastly different megafauna; Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros, Cave Lion, Cave Hyaena, and (my personal favorite) Irish Elk all roamed the ‘Sceptered Isle. So what happened to them? Why are they no longer to be seen – in Britain or anywhere, for that matter?
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 […]