cave lion
Pleistocene big cat
The cave lion was a large prehistoric cat that roamed Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch, going extinct roughly 12,000 years ago.
Closely related to modern lions but larger, it earned its name from the cave paintings and fossil remains found in European caves.
Cave lions likely hunted the megafauna of the Ice Age steppes.
Slow-moving ice mass
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
woolly mammoth · Neanderthal · Beringia · glacial period · ice sheet · megafauna · cold-adapted · glaciation
Study of ancient organisms
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- archaeologyStudy of physical remnants
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
bone fragments · skull · mandible · tooth enamel · limestone · radiometric dating · carbon-dating · fossilization
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- disappearedCeased to exist visibly
- prehistoric predatorAncient carnivorous animal
woolly rhinoceros · giant deer · fossil record · reconstructed
Paleolithic painted cavern
- rock paintingArt on stone surfaces
- Paleolithic artIce-age creative works
- ochreIron-rich earth pigment
- charcoal drawingArt using burned wood sticks
hunting scene · pigment · shamanic · symbolic · rendered
glacier
Slow-moving ice mass
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
permafrost · woolly mammoth · Neanderthal · Beringia · glacial period · ice sheet · megafauna · cold-adapted · glaciation · interglacial
paleontology
Study of ancient organisms
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- archaeologyStudy of physical remnants
sediment · bone fragments · skull · mandible · tooth enamel · limestone · radiometric dating · carbon-dating · fossilization · skeletal remains
vanished
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- disappearedCeased to exist visibly
prehistoric predator · woolly rhinoceros · giant deer · fossil record · reconstructed
Lascaux
Paleolithic painted cavern
- rock paintingArt on stone surfaces
- Paleolithic artIce-age creative works
- ochreIron-rich earth pigment
charcoal drawing · hunting scene · pigment · shamanic · symbolic · rendered
Felidae
Taxonomic cat family
feline · paws · claws · fangs · fur · big cat · apex predator · muscular · territorial · nocturnal
- Ice Ageice age, mammoths, saber-tooth cat, mammoth, woolly mammoth
- apex predatorsgreat white shark, tiger, orca, killer whale, polar bear
- Extinct Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus, dodo, mammoth
- megafaunaelephant, mammoth, woolly mammoth, mastodon, rhinoceros
- Prehistoric Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, T-Rex, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus
- prehistoric lifedinosaur, dinosaurs, triceratops, Velociraptor, velociraptor
cave lionwoolly mammoth
Extinct hairy elephant species
woolly rhinoceros · megaherbivore · cave bear · giant deer · aurochs
cave, lion, caves, caved, caving, cavern, cavernous, cavity, concave