50,000-YEAR-OLD WILD CAT
The discovery, in the Ma Valley, Derbyshire, of an almos plete skull and part of a skei . the ivnx borealis, a giunt w*io extinct for more than 50,000 y reported by Rev. G- H. Wilson, o well. Writing to the London “Daily Mr. Wilson says:— While exploring the cave, * i badgers were tracked up a st v to a point where the footpr a fc>n£ over the ledge of a buttress. to a platform in an almost part of the tors, about 300 ft a river bed. hurt©** 4 There the animals had a nd under a great shelf of the cn when a trench was cut the entrance to the lower charo lynx cave was gained. , g tb^ Mr. Wilson claims that tm i most important lynx discovery » j made in Britain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 16
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13650,000-YEAR-OLD WILD CAT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 16
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