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The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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( This post was last modified: 08-31-2017, 09:03 PM by GrizzlyClaws )

@tigerluver so we can reach the consensus that the family of the maneless form of lion was always the main theatre in the history for the giant felid, while the supersize of the Ngandong tiger, Smilodon populator, and other giant sabertooth species were just several isolated sideshows. And the swan song in the history of the giant felid was the hypothetical supersize of the Amur tiger in a brief period after the extinction of the Cave lion.

Although the Amur tiger may not even be the largest cat in the modern time, but they are likely a surviving member who once joined the club of the giant felid. On the other hand, the modern maned lions and the Bengal tigers are superior to the Amur tiger in the modern time, but they never imitated the supersize evolutionary pattern of the prehistoric giant felid species, unlike the Amur tiger in the past.

I am also suspecting that the giant Manchurian tigers aforementioned by @peter could be the leftover population of those supersized giant Amur tigers that displaced the Cave lions right after the Pleistocene era.
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