Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

[tigerluver]

I brought it up a long while ago that the mandible really did look cave lion-like. I don't think I pointed this out earlier, but look at the little protrusion at the symphysis:

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A lot of P. spelaea have that bump/protrusion. Some P. atrox do too. I've never seen the bump on P. fossilis, though.

That bump is seen in P. youngi too. It is in the Wahnsien skull as well, but that skull has by crushed from above so maybe that caused it. 

You've brought up a really good point on the thickness.

I think we all can see why the fossils in Russia, Manchuria, and Alaska have been so hotly debated as to whether they were tiger or lion. Reply