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Reply to comment by chosen-username in Eli5: why are there tigers in Siberia but not in Scandinavia? by chosen-username
Not really. The has been a lion in Greece and the Balkans up to Hungary and Ukraine. The last one survives in part of Greece until 4th century AD.
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Northern Europe has quite recently been covered with ice and human migration has followed the retreat of the ice. The large ice cover had its largest extent 20 000 years ago when it ended in northern Germany.
The lynx is the largest feline, wolf, and bears are the largest predators.
Exactly what life was there before the last ice age is unknown. A kilometer-thick layer of ice even smooths out the bedrock so there is no evidence of what lived in Scandinavia before the ice retreated. That is lived recently before it, there is evidence od what lived millions of a year ago in for example sandstone formations.
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