Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Modern humans also drew cave paintings of cave lions, engraved their likeness on bones and created sculptures of them, including the famous anthropomorphic lion-man figure from Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany dating to around 41-35,000 years ago with the body of a human and the head of a lion.
Size comparison of Panthera fossilis and its descendant Panthera spelaea with humans Remains of P. fossilis indicate that it was larger than the modern lion and was among the largest known cats ever, with the largest specimens suggested to have a body length of 2.5–2.9 metres (8.2–9.5 ft), shoulder height of 1.4–1.5 metres (4.6–4.9 ft ...
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
The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.
On the 100 skelettons found, the size of the American Cave Lion goes from 1.6m to 2.5m for the biggest. The Early European Cave lion was 1.5 to 2.4m long and was the smallest, the late one was up to 2.7 and was bigger than even the biggest American Cave Lion recorded.
This species represents one of the largest known felines to have ever existed, with this species eventually evolving into the smaller (around the size of a modern lion) cave lion (Panthera spelaea), [5] which is widely depicted in Palaeolithic European art like cave paintings. [6] Remains of P. fossilis and P. spelaea are known from across ...
Size comparison between a human and two species of Basilosaurus, B. cetiodes (dark blue) and B. isis The heaviest archeocete , and possibly the heaviest known mammal was Perucetus , with weight estimated at 85–340 t (84–335 long tons; 94–375 short tons), while length is estimated at 17.0–20.1 meters (55.8–65.9 ft), [ 110 ] possibly ...
Eurasian cave lion may refer to: Panthera fossilis, the Middle Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion; Panthera spelaea, the Late Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion