More information: Dominika Bujnáková et al, Wolf cranial morphology tracks population replacement in Fennoscandia, Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250358.

In those countries as well as in the whole Fennoscandia wolverines were low in abundance only 50 years ago due to, for example, state-paid cullings.

Revised Middle and Late Pleistocene interglacial and interstadial records from the glaciated eastern Fennoscandia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021; 251: 106716 DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106716; ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A set of moss samples (n=58) was collected and analysed to obtain modern pollen analogues for both natural and human induced vegetation types ...

In contrast to other mammals in Fennoscandia, the Norwegian lemming may have survived the last Ice Age in the far north, sealed off from the rest of the world by gigantic ice sheets.

But in Fennoscandia, the animal's prized pelt led to its near downfall. Intensive hunting pushed the Arctic foxes to the edge of extinction here by the early 20th Century.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of wolf skulls from Fennoscandia over the past 200 years shows significant cranial shape changes in modern wolves compared to historical populations ...