I am getting lot of advertisement for curiositystream.com. It's a subscription base documentaries and probably concept is same as Netflix and Amazon Prime. I think it is run by owner of discovery network.

Does anyone have any cases of big cats taking life threatening injuries and living to roar about it?

Here's a young male lion who survived a kick from a giraffe





Tiger after a horrific fight I'm guessing.




Leopard gets skewered on gate. Sad
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By The Siberian Times reporter
11 August 2018
Sensational find of world’s only completely preserved ancient baby horse, aged just three months when it died in the Palaeolithic period.

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Clipety-clop! The Upper Paleolithic foal held by Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum 
This is the first picture of an ancient foal dug out of the permafrost in the Batagai depression - also known as the ‘Mouth of Hell’ -  in the Yakutia region of Siberia. 
Head of the world famous Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, Semyon Grigoryev,  said: ‘The foal was approximately three months old (when it died). 
‘The unique find was made in the permafrost of Batagai depression. The foal was completely preserved by permafrost.   
‘The extra value of the unique find is that we obtained samples of soil layers where it was preserved, which means we will be able to restore a picture of the foal’s environment.’

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The Batagai depression in Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia. Pictures: The Siberian Times

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The Ice Age foal lived up to 40,000 years ago, it is understood.
It was buried at a level of around 30 metres in the tadpole-shaped depression, which is a ‘megaslump’ one kilometre long and around 800 metres wide. 
‘We will report the exact time when it lived after studying the soil samples,’ said the scientist.
‘The foal has completely preserved dark-brown hair, its tail and mane, as well as all internal organs. 
‘There are no visible wounds on its body. 
‘This is the first find in the world find of a pre-historic horse of such a young age and with such an amazing level of preservation.’

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Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, and the Batagai depression in Verkhoyansk depression in Verkhoyansk district of Yakutia. Pictures: The Siberian Times

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One unconfirmed account suggests that hair on the ancient horse has ‘zebra-like stripes’ on its legs. 
The foal was found by an expedition to the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia.
The find was located by scientists from the North-Eastern Federal University, and Kindai University in Japan along with a crew from Fuji TV.
Nine years ago locals in Batagai village found a bison calf and part of an ancient horse’s body.
Locals in the remote Yakutia region see this spectacular crater as superstitious, and know it as the 'gateway to the underworld'. In fact, the depression was caused by the Soviets, who cleared forest here, but it is now being enlarged and shaped by climate change, according to local scientists.

Before 2017, the following were recognised as subspecies (Heptner and Sludskiy: https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...4/mode/2up, Wozencraft: http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biol...d=14000228, and Haas et al.: https://web.archive.org/web/201707281311...ra_leo.pdf): 

1) 1758: Nominate subspecies, the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) in North Africa 

Photo by Nelson Robinson, the New York Zoological Society, 1897 (https://archive.org/stream/annualreporto...#page/n141) 



2) 1826: the Persian lion (Panthera leo persica) in Asia, and the Senegal lion (Panthera leo senegalensis) in West Africa 

Photo of an Asiatic lion in Natureinfocus.com (https://hive.natureinfocus.in/photo_sharing/royal-walk/) 



Photo of a Senegal lion by Panthera (http://am1070theanswer.com/news/entertai...icas-lions) 



3) 1842: The Cape lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 

Photo by an unknown photographer in Jardin des Plantes, Paris, circa 1860 (https://books.google.dk/books?id=15AsyQ8...&q&f=false) 



4) 1843: The Nubian lion (Panthera leo nubica) in Northeast Africa (treated as belonging to the Barbary subspecies by Wozencraft, and the Masai subspecies by Haas et al.), and the Gambian lion (Panthera leo gambianus) in West Africa (treated as belonging to the Senegalese subspecies by Wozencraft and Haas et al.) 

Photo of a young Nubian lion in the New York Zoological Gardens by Elwin Sanborn (https://archive.org/stream/annualreportn...9/mode/1up) 



Photo of a Gambian lion in BookAllSafaris (https://www.bookallsafaris.com/sam-s-tou...ark-gambia) 



5) 1891–1964: The Somali lion (Panthera leo somaliensis or Panthera leo webbiensis) in the Horn of Africa (treated as belonging to the Barbary subspecies by Wozencraft, and the Masai subspecies by Haas et al.) 

Photo of a lion in the Horn of Africa by Feisal Omar of Reuters (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-self...of-china-1) 



6) 1892–1895: The Masai lion (Panthera leo massaica) in East Africa 

Photo of a Masai lion by Alison Buttigieg (http://www.alisonbuttigieg.com/border_galleries/lions/) 



7) 1900: The Kilimanjaro lion (Panthera leo sabakiensis) in East Africa (treated as belonging to the Masai subspecies by Wozencraft and Haas et al.), and the Cameroon lion (Panthera leo kampzi) in Cameroon or West-Central Africa (treated as belonging to the Senegalese subspecies by Haas et al., and as a subspecies of its own by Wozencraft) 

Photo of a Kenyan lion in front of Mount Kilimanjaro by Stuart Abraham of Alamy (https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-male-l...71851.html) 



Photo of a Cameroon lion by photo316 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/29844852@N06/2790086463) 



8) 1913: The Ugandan lion (Panthera leo nyanzae) in East Africa (treated as belonging to the Masai subspecies by Haas et al., and as a subspecies of its own by Wozencraft) 

Photo in the website of Marianah Tourist Hotel (https://marianahthotel.wordpress.com/saf...onal-park/) 



9) 1914: The Katanga lion (Panthera leo bleyenberghi) in what is now southern D R Congo and Southwest Africa, and the Sotik lion (Panthera leo hollisteri) in what is now Kenya in East Africa (treated as belonging to the Masai subspecies by Haas et al., and as a subspecies of its own by Wozencraft) 

Photo of a Namibian lion by Minden (https://www.mindenpictures.com/search/pr...09167.html) 



Stuffed Sotik lion shot by US President Theodore Roosevelt, photo by Jayne Orenstein in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spea...ad97648320) 



10) 1924: The Congolese lion (Panthera leo azandica) in the northeastern part of what is now D R Congo 

Photo by Adrian Treves (https://savevirunga.com/2012/07/02/1-000...irunga-10/) 



11) 1929: The Transvaal lion (Panthera leo krugeri) in what is now the Greater Kruger or Transvaal region of South Africa, and Southeast Africa  

Photo of a Kruger lion by Bernard Dupont (https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/16757912564/) 



12) 1945: The Kalahari lion (Panthera leo vernayi) in Southwest Africa (treated as belonging to the Transvaal subspecies by Haas et al.) 

Photo by Alison Buttigieg (http://www.alisonbuttigieg.com/border_galleries/lions/) 



In 2017, the Cat Classification Taskforce of the Cat Specialist Group (Pages 71–73: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y) revised lion subspecies. They recognised lions in Asia and Northern, Western and Central Africa as belonging to the subspecies Panthera leo leo, and those in Eastern and Southern Africa as belonging to the subspecies Panthera leo melanochaita, but there is a problem, the 2 subspecies appear to overlap in the Northeast African country of Ethiopia, which would mean that Ethiopian lions (formerly Panthera leo roosevelti or Felis leo roosevelti, in honor of the US President Theodore Roosevelt (https://archive.org/stream/smithsonianmi...3/mode/2up), but also treated as belonging to the Masai subspecies by Haas et al. and Wozencraft) are neither purely Panthera leo leo nor Panthera leo melanochaita, but a mixture (Panthera leo leo × Panthera leo melanochaita), and the Cat Specialist Group put a question mark over the Horn of Africa in Page 72: 


Credit: the Cat Specialist Group 

Ethiopian lions have been in the news for their genetic makeup before. In 2012, Bruche et al. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...012-0668-5) had tested them, and found them to be genetically different to other lions. 

Photo of a captive Ethiopian lion at Addis Abeba Zoo in an article by ZeHabesha (https://www.zehabesha.com/ethiopias-iron...ding-fast/) 

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Often people surf through Internet once in a while & hoard all good stuff they find. Later on while posting those one might have no idea where he/she had found them, or who the photographer was.
Even if someone bookmarks every one of them & individual photo sources are still hectic to find from the pile.

To encourage the habit sharing of links & credits to photographs' source website/profile/article, here's a reliable and easy to use "Reverse Image Search" engine:
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Hello Guys,
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‎Hedayeat Ullah‎ 

(10 May 2018). Loc: Nakhanda Barpeta.

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This species displays the classic features of the genus, with skull similar in size to that of the jaguar, moderately flattened canines, large carnassial and a rather primitive mastoid region. The first fossils of this species known to science were a damaged skull and an upper canine found at the South African site of Sterkfontein, as described by R. Broom in 1937.
Reconstructed life appearance of Dinofelis barlowi, shoulder height 70 cm.        
Skull and reconstructed life appearance of head of Dinofelis barlowi
Book Sabertooth (Mauricio Anton)            

I'm very surprised that this forum doesn't have a thread dedicated to 'Shark predations'... considering the fact that Sharks, especially the Great White, is one of the greatest and easily the most fearsome and devastating predator on earth! So, i'll start one...

"Sharks are apex predators throughout the ocean, yet relatively few studies have quantified or determined factors influencing their hunting behaviour and predatory success rates. The waters surrounding Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, provide a unique opportunity to study predator-prey interactions involving Great White Sharks (hereafter white sharks). During the winter, white sharks visit Seal Island to hunt Cape fur seals. About 48% of surface attacks on seals result in successful kills. Attack frequency is high, averaging 6.68 per day, with as many as 43 recorded in a single day. Sharks attack seals on the surface via a sudden vertical rush, which propels predator and prey out of the water in an awesome display of power and acrobatic prowess"...

http://sharkresearch.rsmas.miami.edu/res...predation/

Giant 20+ft Great White Shark named 'Deep Blue' hunts for Elephant seals off Guadalupe Island:


Great White Shark attacks and tears apart an Elephant seal:


Great white breaches out of the water:


Shark attack on Dolphin:













You can't get scarier then this!!..