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The Earth during the Pleistocene was a battleground, where predator and prey engaged in an unforgiving cycle of life and death. Vast grasslands, dense forests, and icy tundras of Europe were teeming with monstrous creatures, taking predation to extreme strategic levels. Apex predators like the European cave lions exemplified this, with sizes significantly larger and ferocity beyond that of their modern descendants. These lions collaborated, outsmarting massive prey like mammoths through coordinated traps, demonstrating that hunting wasn’t purely a test of strength but a battle of wits as well.