Largest cat in history?

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(01-22-2022, 01:31 PM)acutidens150 Wrote: I don't think the skull of c.386 mm GSL belongs to an adult male, could it be a young male or an adult female? Because Ngandong tigers were massive.

The people that studied the skull do not mention if the sutures in the skull were still open or fully close, as far I know. However, from the picture we can see that there are not sutures open, so this was probably an adult already.

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However, remember that the posibility that a true giant get fossilized is very small, probably all the specimens found are around the area of the average sized specimens, and that skull could be in the lower range. Check for example that Bengal tigers are big, but the smaller skulls from adult males are as small as 329 mm. So in a population you will found small adults and big adults and of course the regular ones that are the most common in the population. Reply