The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

[tigerluver]

P. shawi is so poorly defined due to the records being teeth and a broken humerus that in most cases, one can get away with calling any old African pantherine from that time period P. shawi. Would you remember where that was read? I may have missed it or forgotten. 

In terms of population movement, usually it's a portion of a population that migrates and not the entirety. So the northern form of P. shawi (or whatever we'd like to call the stem group) that stayed in Africa could have been the parent of modern lions as well. Reply