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(07-10-2023, 01:31 PM)Bitishannah Wrote: Any official evidence that wahsien tiger was larger than modern tigers and similar in weight to American lion?
Yes and No.
But let's clarify something. There is no "oficial evidence", that therm do not exist in Paleontology. What we have is "published data", and based in that, the biggest Wanhsien tigers were as big as the biggest modern Bengal/Amur tigers, if not slightly bigger, but not for a very big difference. The only prehistoric tigers, studied and published, that were equal or bigger than the American "lion" are the Ngandong tiger and the Pleistocene Borneo tiger.
However, there are some specimens in private collections of Wanhsien tigers that did reached huge sizes, sadly the measurements are not published so we can only speculate based in pictures.