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(02-03-2022, 05:38 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Base on the evidence available in litterature, the Wanshien tiger (Panthera tigris acutidens) was of the same size as modern Bengal and Amur tigers, or maybe slightly bigger in the best of the cases. Now, there are several bones in private collections, including a huge skull that sadly are not available for study, so they are useless for conclutions.
Those giant specimens from the private collections mostly belonged to the late Pleistocene, and probably morphologically/genetically not much different from the modern tigers.
Whereas those Wanhsien tigers were quite archaic in comparison, probably it was the predecessor of those giant tigers from the late Pleistocene.