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Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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

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