Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(11-18-2018, 05:57 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Interesting. I think tigerluver discovered an international "conspiracy" with the tampered femur. This conspiracy of course has never affected professional paleontological curcles, but did affect some wildlife forums. I remember that in some Eastern Eoropean forums were circulating 2 completely diferent widths of that 480 mm femur and the most bloggers trusted more to the digits from the tampered image than the digits from an early scientific publications. Even some Russian bloggers started to use nasty and not polite words for the paleontologists who calculated the body mass of P.t.soloensis on 480 kg. Its understandable because majority of people trust more to images than to digits. Nobody could imagine that the femur from the image is tampered.

The important thing is that the professional circles used the publised measurements of Dr Koenigswald, here is the picture of the measurements from his book:

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At the begining, Koenigswald labeled the femur as "Felis palaeojavainica", just like the large skull, but latter it was corrected to Panthera tigris. So, as long as this are used, there is no doubt about the size of the femur. Reply