Posted on 10/27/2015 11:42:03 AM PDT by zeestephen
Cave lions lived during the Middle to Late Pleistocene eras in Eurasia, the British Isles, to the far east of Russia, and into Alaska and northwestern Canada. Their extinction remains something of a mystery because they had few predators and, due to their smaller size, they wouldn't get trapped in bogs like woolly mammoths and rhinos.
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Poor little critters.
From that picture, I would have guessed I was looking at a canid, rather than a cat...say, an earless lab-pit cross.
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