Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(01-27-2022, 07:02 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: BTW, the straight line is probably around 16 inches, and it obviously belonged to a wild male Barbary lion, so definitely much more robust those captive specimens.

I was checking the image and certainly that skull is less than 16 inches. Other thing, the saler will be incredible lucky if his history is correct, which are the probabilities to found a skull from a wild Barbary lion? Think about it, it sound to good to be real. How he got it? Were he actually got it? Which are the credentials of this skull? Is the skull real? There are too many questions that make me think that the entire story is fake and that the skull could be from another captive lion IF is actually a real skull (oh yes, this can be also a reproduction only!). Even if is real, the nasal opening is so big that remember more the skull of an American "lion" Panthera atrox than that of a moden lion Panthera leo.

So, I think that the entire situation is very fishy, the reliability of the skull is also in doubt and from the "Barbary" side, I will trust only in the specimens that we can actually verify from reliable sources, and a webpage that sold things like that page, or Ebay for example, is not reliable in my book. Reply