First part: Алекс, sorry but your reasoning is completely incorrect. How you going to compare the length of bones with distorted, badly taken pictures??? This is illogical and futile, especially when you try to compare long bones. Check the statements of Dr Christiansen, he only used high resolution professional photographs for comparison of his tiger-lion skulls (taken in straight line), not simple amateur camera-taken images from a book; after all, this are not even scanned images! By the way, your images are not the original ones, you changed the original values!

Special for Raúl Valvert !

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Авторы работы по tigris soloensis ошиблись не в замерах , а в цифрах выложенных в статье . Внимательно сравните рисунки костей и таблицы ,где кость бедра тонкая для длины 480 мм ,даже тоньше ,чем бедренная кость пещерного льва 419мм ! Товарищи иностранцы ,нужно смотреть не только длину костей ,а и толщину (диаметры) :)

I was reading the Russian page of this site and you mention that the femur of 480 mm is badly measured and that it was probably of just 408 mm. I think that to mention this is not accurate, because the persons that mentioned this (only two, and in a single Russian forum only) are only speculating with any base. The original measurement is of 480 mm, and this is accepted by scientists. So, there is no need to contribute with misinformation, unless than someone can in fact, measure again the bone. Please, we most be accurate and scientific in our statements. By the way, I made another correction, in my past post I use "cm" (centimeters) when the correct measurements is "mm" (millimeters). Sorry for that, greetings.

Hello everyone. Just one correction. The largest femur for "Panthera (leo) fossilis" measured 470 cm (not the 475 cm that I previously mentioned). The fossil came from Mladec. However, it is still not 100% if this was from a "P. (l.) fossilis" specimen or if it was a supersized "Panthera (leo) spelaea". Greetings to all.

Roman, thanks for taken in count the correction of habitat, now it really looks like the Ngandong tiger and the Pleistocene dholes in the back are a really nice touch. Congratulations for your great art, as always.