Skull of a cave hyena (Hyaena spelaea), from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Cave hyenas, now considered a subspecies of today's spotted hyena, lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. This skull was found in a cave in England.

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Cave Hyena Skull, Illustration

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