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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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01-22-2016, 08:47 AM

(01-17-2016, 04:35 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:
(01-16-2016, 09:26 AM)tigerluver Wrote:
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I remember the 470 mm P. spelaea bone was passed off as P. fossilis due to size and someone quoted Mladec as middle Pleistocene. Rereading the document, the specimen is likely much younger, as it is from the same collection of bison bones dated to around 20 kya. The Mokhnevskaya skull is likely from the latest interglacial, somewhere around 100 kya. This specimen may be even younger. It seems the great size of P. spelaea was retained up until its extinction.

The Asian Cave lions could also likely have the same size as their European counterparts.

Didn't they have bigger and more numerous prey in Siberia at that time as well? I've always thought Siberian cave lions were larger than the cave lions in Europe due to that exact reason.
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RE: Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines - Polar - 01-22-2016, 08:47 AM
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