For example, there are lions on the coat of arms of Britain or Norway, but there are no lions there.
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They used to live in Europe. They just went extinct.
That being said, that extinction was somewhere between 1000bc and 300bc depending on estimates. So they definitely weren’t around in medieval times. Still, people travel, and the mighty beast from distant lands makes for a good symbol. After all, dragons and unicorns are very common in heraldry as well.
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