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About 100 thousand years ago the Italian fauna was much more diversified than the present one: we had animals still existing today, such as hippos, leopards, lions, hyenas and moose; we had endemic dwarf elephants, inhabitants of the European Pleistocene megafauna such as cave bears and lions, the Megaloceros, the steppe bison and the mammoth, as well as various types of rhinoceros. Diversity that with the end of the ice ages and with the arrival of mankind has gradually decreased more and more. Cave Hyena, Pleistocene Megafauna, Pleistocene Animals, Ice Age Animals, Stone Age Animals, Prehistoric Mammals, Cave Bear, Prehistoric Wildlife, Ark Survival Evolved

About 100 thousand years ago the Italian fauna was much more diversified than the present one: we had animals still existing today, such as hippos, leopards, lions, hyenas and moose; we had endemic dwarf elephants, inhabitants of the European Pleistocene megafauna such as cave bears and lions, the Megaloceros, the steppe bison and the mammoth, as well as various types of rhinoceros. Diversity that with the end of the ice ages and with the arrival of mankind has gradually decreased more and…

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Artist's reconstruction of cave hyena Sabertooth Tiger, Lucas Lima, Prehistoric Wildlife, Prehistoric World, Prehistoric Art, Paleo Art, Cave In, Extinct Animals, Wildlife Artists

A fossil-bearing cave in northeastern Spain that has yielded the most complete skeleton of the extinct cave hyena yet known, greatly improving on partial remains found elsewhere. The deposits in the cave, known as Las Aprendices, have been dated to approximately 144,000 years ago. The cave offers a snapshot of the environment and wildlife encountered by the first humans moving into Europe.

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