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As mentioned in the article, the genus homotherium was present on all continents, with the exception of Australia and Antarctica, however it is not known about the simultaneous temporal overlap of the species throughout this vast geographical area. A pertinent question is to understand that the species lived in ecologically very diverse environments - from the holárctic, desert, and vegetated environments. An evolutionary success that is also evident in the overlap with several other species of felines, both in the ancient forms of the subfamily machairodontinae and in modern cats.
It certainly had, as it expanded, hunting behaviors and strategies well adaptable, but why did the species also become extinct in the late Pleistocene? A question the absente of adaptation to large prey that are extinct? The species disappeared from Africa more than a million years ago (it has occupied since the southern part of the continent). The phenomenon of extinction is complex and rationalizing the usual combination that supports human killing, disease or climatic phenomena in combinative agreement or disagreement, makes extinction a process that needs to be analyzed in detail to local / regional disappearances. Homotherium have not disappeared, simultaneously or not, from the Americas and Eurasia for the same reasons.
A species that should be given greater value within the evolutionary conception of felines. So far there is no record of interspecific hybridization of this species with that of another feline in the last fourteen million years. A significant evolutionary success the felidae family.
