Quaternary terrestrial megafaunal remains and their localities in the southern bight of the North Sea between the British Isles and The Netherlands: An overview

For more than 150 years, the Southern Bight of the North Sea source of remains of fossil land mammals and artifacts from the entire Pleistocene and Early Holocene. The vast majority of fossil mammal remains ended up as by-catch in the nets of beam trawlers by chance and were then secured for inclusion in museum and private collections. In addition, over the past three decades, several expeditions have been executed using chartered beam trawlers with the aim of intensively dredging for fossil land mammals from the Pleistocene at locations recorded by chance finds from commercial beam trawling.