The simbakubwa, a giant Miocene lion.

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(04-21-2019, 10:26 AM)Wolverine Wrote: While the length of Simba-beast lower jaw is exactly equal to average man width in the shoulders - ar. 50 cm:

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In other words the size of this jaw is not something unique. Obviously assessment of 1500 kg is quite correct and the picture with real size of Simba-beast is this:

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while the size of the beast below is highly exaggerated or the skull of the African lion is not from adult animal:

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@tigerluver and @Wolverine hit the nail. All those news reports are full of exagerations and at some point are not reliable.

Also, these images from the news media showing how huge was this new animal with a random sized lion skull are rubish. In fact, the mandible do not seems to be larger than a Panthera atrox skull, which means that althoug it is larger than the largest wild lion skull recorded (408 mm) it is not exageratelly large as the image is depicted. This extinct animal was not near the 900 kg, I think that Sarkastodon mongoliensis, Hyaenodon gigas and even Amphicyon ingens were larger or as large as this new African animal. Reply