Another Life:  The great inventory of fossil bones unearthed in Irish caves summons up the ancient mammal history of the island. Exploring the rubble of limestone caves in Co Clare by lanternlight just over a century ago, for example, the naturalist Richard Ussher sent 70,000 bones to the National Museum of Ireland. Among them were reindeer, wolf, bear, mammoth, giant deer, arctic lemmings and foxes, and the spotted hyena, whose ancestors had roamed up from Africa… …Meanwhile, there has been new Irish support for the idea of bringing in beavers, already reintroduced from Norway to two rivers in Scotland…
Irish Times, 09/05/15. Read the full article ‘Lynx on the loose? That’ll add a frisson to a forest ramble‘.