What is the American lion?
Q: What is the American lion?
A: The American lion is an extinct species of lion that lived in North America during the Pleistocene.
Q: What other names is the American lion known by?
A: The American lion is also known as Naegele's giant jaguar and American cave lion.
Q: When did the American lion live?
A: The American lion lived 340,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago, for about 330,000 thousand years.
Q: What family did the American lion belong to?
A: The American lion belonged to the family Felidae.
Q: What is the American lion's relation to the Eurasian cave lion?
A: By analysing the species' genes, scientists have shown that the American lion and the Eurasian cave lion shared the same ancestor.
Q: How large was the American lion compared to other lions?
A: The American lion was slightly larger than the early middle Pleistocene cave lion, P. leo fossilis, and about 25% larger than the modern African lion.
Q: What did the American lion hunt?
A: The American lion hunted large mammals such as horses, camels, bison and mammoth.
