Britain’s lost felines

1 WHEN AND WHY DID LYNX DIE OUT HERE?

“Lynxes were definitely in Britain later than the Romans and were still around when the Saxons. They easily survived the end of the Ice Age, which killed off woolly mammoths and many other megafauna. The final straw, Barnett argues, came some 10,000 years later, with a combination of persecution and deforestation during a period of medieval political turmoil.