Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

(07-18-2024, 06:59 AM)peter Wrote:

(07-18-2024, 06:32 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: @tigerluver @peter 

A big cat canine tooth from Manchuria, and it does look comparable to a large male Amur tiger, but the canine root is a bit thinner compared to tiger's canine root.

Maybe a Cave lion/Panthera spelaea?

144 mm long and weighed 150.7 grams

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GRIZZLY

Some years ago, in the tiger extinction thread, a study about bones found in a number of caves in the Russian Far East was discussed quite extensively. It seems cave lions roamed in that part of the world about 40,000-50,000 years ago. Although smaller than their relatives elsewhere, they were still larger than the tigers that succeeded them. In the study, Baryshnikov compared both big cats. His remarks about the teeth of both are interesting.

Although there is no C-14 test for those remains, but the formation fossils look younger than 40-50 kya.

The Cave lions from Russian far east were medium sized lions, a bit larger than the contemporary tigers, but the Amur tigers in their prime were larger than the Asiatic Cave lions. Reply

[TheHyenid76]

The skull of a Sundarbans tiger. Source.

Meet the Bāgha(or tiger, in Hindu). Across the Bangladesh-Indian border stretches the Sundarbans, the largest area of mangrove forest in the world. This is the home to the last remaining Bangladeshi population of Bengal Tigers. In the second image you can see the size of a tiger's skull in comparison to that of a fishing cat.

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[epaiva]

Comparing the skull of female Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) with the skull of male Alaskan Wolf (Canis lupus) 

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[johnny rex]

(10-25-2019, 03:34 PM)Smerjeevski Wrote: Hello Jonny Rex,

my name is Sergei, I have photographed and handled this particular tiger skull. Indeed it is particularly wide. It is also asymmetrical. It comes from a captive animal, the zygomatic arches are thick, the sagittal crest droops/slopes backwards and the occipitum is more poorly developed than in wild specimens.
The specimen is likely a hybrid siberian bengal like most captive tigers seen in zoos.

Sergei.

http://skullbase.info/skulls/mammals/lion.php

Pictures above showing a skull of an average wild adult male lion from Tanzania.

Pictures below showing a skull of a captive adult male tiger which is also an average-sized skull, but not sure which specimen of tiger.




http://skullbase.info/skulls/mammals/tiger.php

What amazes me is the width of the tiger skull in relation to its length. The lion skull is longer than the tiger skull, but the tiger skull is much wider than the lion skull. Imagine if there are 16-inches tiger skulls out there with similar skull configuration like this tiger skull, its width must be great.

If those 16 inches tiger skulls have similar skull configs as the wide captive tiger, the width will be around 12-13 inches. Reply