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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.
In the 1799 paper, Jefferson named the then-unknown animal Megalonyx ("great-claw") and compared each recovered bone to the corresponding bone in a lion. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In his original draft of the paper, Jefferson thought the animal was a carnivore, one of the large cats, writing “Let us only say then, what we may safely say, that he was more ...
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.
The bones were from a large armored plant-eating mammal named Neosclerocalyptus, part of a group called glyptodonts that inhabited the Americas for more than 30 million years before going extinct ...
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.
Bryant shared the video on YouTube. The 3-minute-long video shows a sea lion thrashing about with an octopus. The sea lion flings the octopus forcefully away, then dives underwater and repeats the ...
† American lion [25] [26] [27] † Panthera atrox: At least 80 individuals A large pantherine, the American lion is a possible descendent of Eurasian cave lions that had become isolated in North America. [26] This big cat is found much more rarely than the contemporary Smilodon. Within the species itself, more fossil specimens are thought to ...
Dubbed the “Manis projectile point,” the ancient spear tip is the oldest bone weapon in America, researchers said in a study published Feb. 1. Estimated to be around 13,900 years old, the ...