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11-05-2015, 10:03 PM( This post was last modified: 11-05-2015, 10:03 PM by GuateGojira )
I hope so. For example, we would see the external appearance of those specimens, just to form a good idea about how they were, at least at cubs.
If they could extract mtDNA or nuclear DNA, I guess it will be better preserved than in bones.
Presently, the taxonomy of cave "lions" is base more in the "heart" than in the evidence. USA-UK scientists prefer to classified them as "lions" per se, but Russians and other scientists from other areas classified them as a different species, closely related with the lion clade (lion-jaguar-leopard), based in multiple evidences.
Just an interesting note. According with Dr Hunter (2015), it seems that the position of the tiger in the Panthera genus is on a review, together with the snow leopard.