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08-26-2022, 07:29 AM( This post was last modified: 08-26-2022, 07:41 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
(02-28-2022, 11:19 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:
(02-28-2022, 10:00 PM)Amphi Wrote:
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One of my old draws!
This is the original, without that ugly red box on it:
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The recent fossil evidence shows that the late Pleistocene Wanhsien tigers were most likely super massive beasts with extremely robust stature.
They represented all survivors of the tiger species after the Toba eruption, and started to re-flourish around MIS4 to MIS3.
All modern tiger subspecies were descended from these late Pleistocene Wanhsien tigers, but the Manchurian Amur tigers were morphologically their closest descendants.
The Ngandong tiger represented a parallel sister lineage to the Wanhsien tiger, and the Holocene Sunda tigers represented the continued lineage of the Ngandong tiger.
The giant Bornean tiger was genetically/morphologically a giant Malayan/Sumatran tiger, which was also likely a hybrid subspecies between the Wanhsien tiger and Ngandong tiger.
That's why the giant Bornean tiger was morphologically much more southern shifted than other mainland tiger subspecies, because they were also partially descended from the Ngandong tiger.