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19 kwi 2022 · Around 100 American lion fossils have been found from La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and it suggests that they were around 25% larger in size than the modern African lion. It is believed that they were the biggest lion subspecies ever existed on earth.
27 maj 2024 · The American cave lion evolved adaptations to its new environment and diverged from the European cave lion around 340,000 years ago. The cave lion lineages were isolated from African and Asian lions since at least 600,000 years ago, according to DNA analysis. Description and Size. The American lion, Panther atrox,
12 wrz 2016 · Morphological and genetic identification and isotopic study of the hair of a cave lion (Panthera spelaea Goldfuss, 1810) from the Malyi Anyui River (Chukotka, Russia). Quaternary Science Reviews 142:61–73.
Late Pleistocene cave lions are one of the most iconic species of Northern Hemisphere Quaternary taphocoenoses. Despite their often-scarce record in cave environments, their ubiquitous distribution across Eurasia and North America assemblages attests to their position as top ice-age predators.
7 maj 2024 · Cave lion lineages are "highly distinct" genetically from the living lion (Burger 2004) The last North American lions became extinct around 13,000 calendar years ago along with mammoths and many other large mammals. Panthera leo, the African lion, is the only surviving lion; of eight recognized subspecies, two are believed extinct in the wild.
1.1 Initial discovery and North American fossils. 1.2 Panthera onca mesembrina and possible South American material. 1.3 Evolution. 2 Description. 3 Distribution. 4 ... Genome-wide sequencing of modern lions and Eurasian cave lions suggests that the lineage of the cave lion and American lion diverged from that of the modern lion around 500,000 ...
The recent divergence date from the cave lion indicates that the American lion is derived from a population of cave lions which colonised North America from Eastern Beringia but became isolated by the presence of the North American glaciers and speciated into the American Lion (1).
