24/01/2024
Southwestern Europe is home to one of the rarest wild cats - the Pyrenean lynx, which almost became extinct at the beginning of the XXI century.
It turned out that not everything was safe with these animals in ancient times. Biologists studied the DNA of three individuals who lived about two to four thousand years ago, and found that their genetic diversity was lower than that of modern Pyrenean lynxes by about two to three times