''Aquila chrysaetos simurgh'' is an extinct subspecies of the widespread

golden eagle The golden eagle (''Aquila chrysaetos'') is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. They are one of the best-known birds ...

. Fossils are found in Crete; it was sometimes evaluated as a full species.

Ecology

It lived during the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the '' Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed ...

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cypru ...

with ''

Mammuthus creticus ''Mammuthus creticus'', or the Cretan dwarf mammoth, is an extinct species of dwarf mammoth. With a shoulder height of about 1 m and a weight of about 310 kg, it was the smallest mammoth that ever existed. After DNA research published in 20 ...

'', the smallest mammoth known.

References

Pleistocene birds Aquila (genus) Prehistoric Crete Late Quaternary prehistoric birds Birds described in 1988 {{bird-stub