Extinct species questions hard to pin down

THE other day I was being quizzed by a classroom of 10-year-olds and finding it quite hard going.

This age group tends to have a well-developed talent for asking difficult questions. The subject was Ireland’s extinct animals and, as the morning progressed, I began to realise how little I knew. This is not just because of my personal ignorance. Nobody really seems to know exactly what species roamed our land a few thousand years ago.

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