Cave lion cub

[GuateGojira]

(09-07-2016, 09:00 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Guate, are the jaguar only diverged 600,000 - 700,000 years from the lion?

But the European jaguar lived way before that, and it is undoubtedly an ancestral species to the modern jaguar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_jaguar

I was quoting from memory, this is more like the date for leopards, I guess, but it is true that jaguars diverged from lion-leopard group long before the split of these two. It seems they split at about the same time than the cave "lions".

I forgotten something. Check that the cave "lion" cub lacks the spots of the modern lion cubs, proving that this species evolved from pure non-spotted cats, while the modern lion evolved from leopard-like animals that adapted to the savanna habitat. Reply