Extinct animals of medieval Britain
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The Sources of Animals in the Mediaeval Period
Mediaeval scribes tend to create animals a which look exactly like the previous pictures of them. Some people focus on genetic evidence now, so that's when they find different populations. Other types of evidence, like place name evidence andartistic evidence is not actually used as much as it was ten or 50 years ago.
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