Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Not anymore. New taxonomy is only Panthera atrox, as those giant lion-like cats are not subspecies of the modern lion, not even clades, but completelly diferent species, just like leopards or jaguars.

In few words, the last Panthera species to evolve were jaguars, leopards, lions and Spelaea-Atrox. Tigers and snow leopards are older.


The document that finally clarify this taxonomical issue is "Mitogenomics of the Extinct Cave Lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), Resolve its Position within the Panthera Cats", from Dr Ross Barnett and his team, published in 2016. The link for the document is: https://www.openquaternary.com/articles/10.5334/oq.24/

Don't believe in Wikipedia, there is a group of "fans" that don't allow to make any change in the pages, believe me I tried but they just return it to the form that THEY want, not the form that reflect the new scientific discoveries. Reply