Animals which lived in Ice Age Britain (extinct);Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Britain: 100,000 - 14,000 BC. Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 2500–2000 BC (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island )
See also;
"Woolly mammoth extinction due to warming climate":
www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/sep/11/woolly-mammoth-extinction-warming-climate"Mammoth DNA could help ‘woolly elephants’ roam wild in Britain":
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/11626197/Mammoth-DNA-could-help-woolly-elephants-roam-wild-in-Britain.html"Mammoths survived late in Britain":
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8106090.stm"Mammoths survived in Britain for thousands of years longer than thought":
www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jun/17/woolly-mammoth-ice-ageWoolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)
Eurasia: between 3.7 million years to 10.000BC
See also;
"Woolly rhino skull found in Cambridgeshire Fens":
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-29819156"Woolly rhino bones discovery allows scientists to calculate Britain’s temperature 42,000 years ago":
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2289178/Woolly-rhino-bones-discovery-allows-scientists-calculate-Britain-s-temperature-42-000-years-ago-think-s-cold-used-22C.html"Remnants of woolly rhino found":
www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/31/science.researchStraight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus)
Went extinct in Britain 120,000 (and is thought to have lived in the country during the warmer inter-glacial periods).
See also;
"Giant Prehistoric Straight-Tusked Elephant Butchered by H. heidelbergensis in Kent":
blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2013/09/23/giant-prehistoric-straight-tusked-elephant-butchered-by-h-heidelbergensis-in-kent.html"Straight-tusked Elephant explained":
everything.explained.today/Straight-tusked_Elephant/"Early signs of elephant butchers":
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5128892.stm"Bronze Art Sparks Debate Over the Extinction of the Straight-Tusked Elephant":
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/27/bronze-art-sparks-debate-over-the-extinction-of-the-straight-tusked-elephant/Narrow-nosed rhino (Stephanorhinus hemitoechus)
A relatively unknown 6,600lb (3,000kg) herbivore grazed its way through Britain around the same time as the straight-tusked elephant during the warm inter-glacial periods.
See also;
"Narrow-nosed rhinoceros jaw from Creswell Crags":
www.creswell-crags.org.uk/explore/exhibition-objects/48/Narrow-nosed-rhinoceros-jaw"Outliving the Ice Age: Tale of a rhinoceros":
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100615151707.htmIrish elk (Megaloceros giganteus)
Europasia: 400,000- 8000 years BC. This giant deer of the ice age had the largest antlers of any creature alive or dead.
See also;
"Extinct Giant Deer Survived Ice Age, Study Says":
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1006_041006_giant_deer.html"Starvation 'wiped out' giant deer":
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8362000/8362203.stm Scimitar-toothed cat (Homotherium latidens)
Britain: 0.75 million years ago- 28,000BC.
See also;
"The forgotten sabretooth":
twilightbeasts.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/the-forgotten-sabretooth/Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus)
See also;
"Early human 'squatters' drove cave bears to extinction":
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11096945"Vegetarian cave bear 'starved to death' during Ice Age":
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3520236/Vegetarian-cave-bear-starved-to-death-during-Ice-Age.html "Huge Cave Bears: When and Why They Disappeared":
www.livescience.com/7622-huge-cave-bears-disappeared.html "Ancient DNA and the Population Genetics of Cave Bears (Ursus spelaeus) Through Space and Time":
mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/11/1920.longCave lion (Panthera leo spelaea)
Britain extinct: 13,000BC.
See also;
"'Super sized lions' roamed UK in ice age":
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/5077393/Super-sized-lions-roamed-UK-in-ice-age.htmlCave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
See also;
"Kirkdale Cave Hyena Den: A Young Earth Puzzle Since 1821":
thenaturalhistorian.com/2014/05/12/kirkdale-cave-hyena-coprolite-challenge-young-earth-buckland/Aurochs (Bos primigenius)
Britain: 400,000 - 3-2,000BC (the last Auroch in the world died in Europe in the 1600s).
See also;
"Ancient wild ox genome reveals complex cow ancestry":
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151026092912.htm"DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago":
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327124243.htm "Driver unearths giant skull of 6ft 'cow' which roamed the country 7,500 years ago":
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1232938/Skull-7-500-year-old-ancestor-cow-uncovered-quarry.html"Genome sequencing of the extinct Eurasian wild aurochs, Bos primigenius, illuminates the phylogeography and evolution of cattle":
www.genomebiology.com/2015/16/1/234"Giant cattle to be bred back from extinction":
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/7011035/Giant-cattle-to-be-bred-back-from-extinction.html"Aurochs: How Hitler and Goering resurrected extinct species to make 'Nazi super cows'":
www.ibtimes.co.uk/aurochs-how-hitler-goering-resurrected-extinct-species-make-nazi-super-cows-1482161Further reading on extinct British Ice Age animals: www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150722-lost-beasts-of-the-ice-age(This thread is subject to updates/added information)
