Freak Specimens

[GrizzlyClaws]

(06-20-2014, 10:37 PM)'tigerluver' Wrote: You're right, I forgot to put "middle" after late in my last post.
Even then, the skull widening had been in effect, so we probably have two equal sized giants.

 

It was in an intermediate transtional phase, wider than the earlier variant, but still less robust compared to Panthera spelaea spelaea and the modern big cats.

BTW, i personally think the unknown specimen discovered in the western Russia might be the largest cave lion specimen so far. Maybe it is a Panthera spelaea spelaea specimen.

This skull might not be the longest one, but definitely the most massive one. Since it is partially broken, thus is impossible to determine its full greatest length. But i can assume it is no less than 460mm and definitely the most massive skull ever known.

When they reconstruct the specimen, it shows the cat is about the size of Baikal. Reply