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Isotopic analysis on cave lions by Hervé Bocherens and colleagues lead them to suggest that cave lions may have been solitary, due to cave lions shifting their diets after the disappearance of cave hyenas, carcasses being consumed the cave hyenas as well, suggests they were at a competitive disadvantage, and the scattering of isotopic data ...
Cave lions are large extinct carnivorous felids that are classified either as subspecies of the lion (Panthera leo), or as distinct but closely related species, depending on the authority. The subspecies or species known by this name include: Panthera spelaea formerly P. leo spelaea, the Eurasian or European cave lion
Although often historically considered a subspecies of the living lion (Panthera leo), Panthera fossilis is currently either considered to be ancestral to [1] or a chronosubspecies of Panthera spelaea (commonly known as the cave lion or steppe lion).
Cave lions, Chamber of Felines, Lascaux caves. The earliest known cave paintings of lions (which are of the extinct species Panthera spelaea) were found in the Chauvet Cave and in Lascaux in France's Ardèche region and represent some of the earliest paleolithic cave art, dating to between 32,000 and 15,000 years ago.
Mitochondrial sequence data from fossils suggest that the American lion (P. atrox) is a sister lineage to Panthera spelaea (the Eurasian cave or steppe lion) that diverged about , and that both P. atrox and P. spelaea are most closely related to lions among living Panthera species. [16]
The scientists believe that the cave lion cubs, dubbed Boris and Sparta, each briefly roamed the steppe of what is now eastern Russia thousands of years ago. Scientists unveil extinct Ice Age lion ...
Another study suggested that the American lion and the Eurasian cave lion were successive offshoots of a lineage leading to a clade which includes modern leopards and lions. [22] A more recent study comparing the skull and jaw of the American lion with other pantherines concluded that it was not a lion but a distinct species.
Eurasian cave lion may refer to: Panthera fossilis, the Middle Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion; Panthera spelaea, the Late Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion