#cavelions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cavelions, aggregated by home.social.
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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today's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #caveLions and other missing #megafauna of the #Pleistocene. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/07/missing-megafauna.html
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"Cave lions mostly didn’t live in caves. They’re like their human contemporaries, the Neanderthals, that way. Just as Neanderthals were not truly cavemen, but nineteenth-century naturalists found them there, so too with the ancient European lions.
Cave lions are like Neanderthals in another way: They mixed with their African-derived relatives. New details about the pattern of mixture of cave lions and modern lions are coming from ancient genomes. David Stanton and coworkers in a new paper compiled twelve genomes from ancient lions across northeastern Siberia, Yukon, Central Asia, and Europe to better understand their diversity and connections with surviving populations of lions.
What they found was widespread evidence of interbreeding from modern lions into ancient cave lion populations."
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/the-ancient-mixture-in-cave-lion
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"Cave lions mostly didn’t live in caves. They’re like their human contemporaries, the Neanderthals, that way. Just as Neanderthals were not truly cavemen, but nineteenth-century naturalists found them there, so too with the ancient European lions.
Cave lions are like Neanderthals in another way: They mixed with their African-derived relatives. New details about the pattern of mixture of cave lions and modern lions are coming from ancient genomes. David Stanton and coworkers in a new paper compiled twelve genomes from ancient lions across northeastern Siberia, Yukon, Central Asia, and Europe to better understand their diversity and connections with surviving populations of lions.
What they found was widespread evidence of interbreeding from modern lions into ancient cave lion populations."
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/the-ancient-mixture-in-cave-lion
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Cave Lions, Not Tigers, Inhabited Japanese Archipelago in Late Pleistocene
New science shows big cats in ancient Japan were cave lions, not tigers. This changes what we know about animals long ago.
#CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats
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Cave Lions, Not Tigers, Inhabited Japanese Archipelago in Late Pleistocene
New science shows big cats in ancient Japan were cave lions, not tigers. This changes what we know about animals long ago.
#CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats
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Scientists have found that big cats living in Japan a long time ago were cave lions. Fossils thought to be tigers were actually lions. This helps us understand ancient animal life better.
#CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats
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Scientists have found that big cats living in Japan a long time ago were cave lions. Fossils thought to be tigers were actually lions. This helps us understand ancient animal life better.
#CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats
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Trophy paws? 🐾
A new study provides the oldest direct evidence of #Neanderthals hunting #CaveLions - and probably not just for the meat:
https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-hunted-and-revered-cave-lions by @spoke32 via @ScienceMagazine
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Trophy paws? 🐾
A new study provides the oldest direct evidence of #Neanderthals hunting #CaveLions - and probably not just for the meat:
https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-hunted-and-revered-cave-lions by @spoke32 via @ScienceMagazine
