#American lion

[dread-doughnuts]

Carnivoran skulls from the Florida Museum of Natural History:

Lesser short-faced bear (Arctodus pristinus). Became extinct around 300,000 years ago, fossils are found in high concentrations in Florida. Related to the modern spectacled bear.

Ambruster’s wolf (Canis ambrusteri). Became extinct around 250,000 years ago, found throughout the United States. Taxonomy of this species is somewhat confusing, it may be related to modern grey wolves but may also be ancestral to dire wolves (which are now placed in the genus Aenocyon).

American lion (Panthera atrox). Became extinct around 11,000 years ago, found from Canada and the United States to southern Mexico. American lions were the sister species to Eurasian cave lions and are closely related to modern lions.

Sabertooth cat (Smilodon gracilis). Became extinct 500,000, had a fairly cosmopolitan range throughout North America and parts of South America. S. gracilis is the smallest Smilodon species and is believed to be the ancestor of S. fatalis and S. popular or. Sabertooth cats are not closely related to any modern species of cat.

[paigeoforacle]

Some dead friends from a weekend trip to the museum.

[cris1702]

Panthera atrox

[seraphica]

Ice Age Megafauna

At the end of the last Ice Age, Mexico was home to over 80 species of large mammals that have since disappeared. In a series of detailed renderings, Sergio de la Rosa illustrated what many may have looked like, with scaled shadows showing their scale next to their nearest living relatives and humans.

Some highlights:

The "giant bison" or "long-horned bison", the largest bovid on record.

The "dire wolf", a sister species to the well-known Gray Wolf, was one of the most abundant carnivores of the Ice Age.

The "Mexican Horse”, one of the most widely distributed American equines. It inhabited mainly North America from about 2 million years ago to about 8 millennia ago.

"Harlan's ground sloth" was a genus of ground sloth that evolved in North America from South American sloths that crossed the Isthmus of Panama about 5 million years ago but disappeared 10,000 years ago.

The "shrub-ox" was a bovid native to North America and a close relative of the arctic musk ox. It was one of the first bovids to reach the Americas via Bering in the early Pleistocene epoch, long before the Eurasian bison arrived.

The "Florida cave bear", a sister species of the South American spectacled bear, was one of the last species to disappear during the extinction process that occurred at the end of the Ice Age.

The "American camel" or "western camel", Camelops was a genus of camelids that evolved in North America about 5 million years ago and disappeared 10,000 years ago.

Cuvieronius is an extinct New World genus of gomphothere which ranged from southern North America to eastern South America. It became extinct approximately 12,000 years ago, following the arrival of humans to the Americas.

The "American Lion", not to be confused with the puma or "mountain lion", is a fossil feline that for some time caused some controversy among paleontologists since several believed that it was actually a variety of tiger or jaguar. DNA studies published in 2009 verified their true lineage: that of lions.

The "Mexican glyptodon" was one of at least 5 species of glyptodons that inhabited North America after their ancestors crossed the still-forming land bridge between South and Central America about 3.9 million years ago.

The "Great Short-Faced Bear", one of the largest bears to ever walk the earth.

Mixotoxodon was a notoungulate mammal, an animal similar to today's rhinos although it was not related to the latter. It survived and prospered during the great American exchange since it was apparently the only specimen of its kind to leave South America and take advantage of new territories when the Isthmus of Panama was formed.

Smilodon, commonly called the "Saber-toothed Tiger", was a distant relative of the cats now live on planet earth. The domestic cat is a closer cousin to the tiger, than the latter to Smilodon.

The Pan American ground sloth, a giant toothed relative of today's tree sloths, evolved in South America but with the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama, this creature took the opportunity to move to Central and North American territories.

The Columbian mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited the Americas as far north as the Northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica.

The "giant capybara" inhabited North America from about 3.6 million years ago until the end of the Pleistocene when the Hydrochoeridae family (the capybaras) became extinct from this part of the continent.

[bigcatswildlife]

Amazon image of two Puma arguing over a kill.

📸 Photo by @photography_by_leighton

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The Puma is the fourth largest cat on earth 🌍, after the Liion 🦁, Tiger 🐯 and Jaguar 🐆.

Unlike other large felines the puma does not roar, but rather purrs much like a regular house cat.

[paperlass]

Aaaand a few more <3 dreadnoughtus neck pouches courtesy of prehistoric planet

Genderfluid: smilodon, american lion, homotherium

Demisexual: drinker

Demiromantic: dreadnoughtus

Aroace: microraptor

Non-binary: nasutoceratops, neimongosaurus, enigmosaurus

Pansexual: parasaurolophus, philovenator, psittacosaurus

[chroniclesofillirah]

Happy Pride from the Chronicles of Illirah and the main Genesis crew!!

[anosrepasi]

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

The upcoming Stitch event feels like those trailers of Lilo and Stitch where Stitch intrudes disney films. Stitch has intruded in Disney movies, now he has intruded in Twisted Wonderland too

[Referencing this post!]

NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT

Yes!! There were commercials and teasers for the Lilo and Stitch movie where Stitch is shown invading other worlds, such as Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, etc.

I also remember that the Lilo and Stitch animated series had a ton of crossover episodes with other Disney Channel original cartoons. There was American Dragon Jake Long, Recess, The Proud Family, and Kim Possible!

So Twisted Wonderland is just another universe/time period/part of the world Stitch is invading… Honestly, such a natural evolution 🤡 I, for one, happily welcome our new fluffy blue alien overlord—

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: American Lions

Description: In 1770, a traveler on the Kanhawa River, West Virginia, claimed a large, cat-like creature devoured half his horse. He reported the incident to Thomas Jefferson, who believed was an unknown species of lion, and not an eastern cougar. 

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

49ERS WIN RAHHHHHHHH

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH BANG BANG NINER GANG 💥💥💥

Me and @alypink watching that game was like

and then the comeback happened....

(based on this real conversation on discord 🤣🤣🤣)

Now onto the Super Bowl vs Chiefs!! I do think it's gonna be a dog fight between Niners and Chiefs. I surely want Niners to win, but Mahomes and Kelce and Andy Reid has more Super Bowl experience, so it's gonna be HARD.

but hey, at least Usher is performing in the halftime show. I LOVE HIM.

oh yeah almost forgot. Me and Aly also made a few discord touchdown stickers! 🤣

[weird-things-first]

Visiting Edgar The Seal together :)

koska sä oot ylivoimainen

[thefugitivesaint]

John Augustus Knapp (1853-1938), ''Secret Teachings of All Age: An Encyclopedia of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy'' by Manly P. Hall, 1928 Source