Prehistoric lion illustration

A mish-mash of fossil animals from different periods, from Johnson's Natural History (Goodrich, 1859). HD scan extracted from archive.org

Figures of four species of titanothere by E.S. Christman, for publication in The titanotheres of ancient Wyoming, Dakota, and Nebraska, by Henry Fairfield Osborn; Washington D.C.: United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (1929, pg 711)

Lion sitting on rock overlooking a valley

Possible interpretations of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea). It probably evolved in Europe less than 600,000 years ago and became extinct about 13,000 years ago. The species was genetically distinct from the modern lion living in Africa and Asia. (Velizar Simeonovski)

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Pleistocene mural detail featuring a pride of American lions. Extinct Panthera leo atrox lived in North America during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs: 340,000 to 11,000 years ago. Larger than modern lions, males weighed from 525–950 lb.

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Another commission list piece: an allosaur scavenging the carcass of the plesiosaur Tatanectes on the edge of the Sundance Sea.

About Eurasian cave lions: ''We know, thanks to the representation of this species by early modern humans, that the cave lions did　not　display the typical male coat of the African lions, although they did bear the tuft at the end of the tail. They probably looked much more like a female lion, but with a denser and thicker coat(especially in the neck region) and with shorter and more robust limbs.'' Jordi Agusti "This massive predator appeared more like a mix between a lion and a tiger with…