Meet the first Iberian lynx on the Iberian Peninsula
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The remains of an Iberian lynx specimen which lived 1.6 million years ago -- the oldest ever discovered -- were found resting in a cave in Barcelona. This discovery not only allows us to shed light on the origins of one of the world's most endangered feline species, but it also means that the emergence of this species on the Iberian Peninsula dates back half a million years earlier than what was originally believed.