Arctic lemming -- c. 8000 BC Arctic fox - c. (unknown) † Eurasian aurochs -- c. 1000 BC Barbary macaque - c. 30,000 BC † Cave bear -- c. 15,000 BC Coypu -- 1978 (nonnative) Elk Alces alces Eurasian beaver -- 1526 (reintroduced) Eurasian brown bear -- c. 1000 AD Eurasian lynx -- c. AD 400 Grey whale -- c. 598 BC Eurasian wolf -- AD 1680 in Britain, AD 1786 in Ireland † Irish elk -- c. 6000 BC Narrow - headed vole -- c. 8000 BC Steppe pika -- c. 8000 BC Root vole -- c. 1500 BC Saiga antelope -- c. 10,000 BC Steppe lemming -- c. 8000 BC † Tarpan -- c. 7000 BC Walrus -- c. 1000 BC (Occasional Visitor) Wild Boar -- c. 1400 (Reintroduced) Wisent -- c. 3000 BC Wolverine -- c. 6000 BC † Woolly mammoth -- c. 10,000 BC † Woolly rhinoceros -- c. 10,000 BC † Cave lion -- c. 10,000 BC † Scimitar cat - c. 30,000 BC † Cave hyena - c. 11,000 BC † European jaguar - c. (unknown) † European Ice Age leopard - c. 24,000 BC † European gazelle - c. (unknown)
when did bears go extinct in the uk
c. 1000 AD