Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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They were mostly different animals from the different periods.

The Manchurian mandible is an actual fossil belongs to the late Pleistocene.

While the subfossil canine belongs to the Amur tiger from the early Holocene.

If the Amur tiger is considered as a very recent species that colonized Manchuria, then most of their remains should be represented as the subfossil, not the actual fossil.

They are all black colored because the geography of their fauna level is the Manchurian Chernozem, known as the black soil in the Eurasia and western North America, that's why some Panthera atrox fossils are also black colored.

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