Salis’s research revealed that this lion lineage went extinct around 33,000 years ago. That extinction of cave lions in eastern Beringia could be attributed to a warming trend in the region ...

Extinct giants, such as the American cheetah and ground sloth, lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10,000 years ago.

The American lion was the largest extinct cat to live in North America during the last ice age, according to the National Park Service. Known by its scientific name, Panthera atrox, meaning ...

13,000 years ago, North Americans used cheetah, lion bones to sew furs against the blistering cold. ... lynx, and the now-extinct American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani), according to Phys.org.

Coincidentally, the first ever American lion fossil was also found in Mississippi, in 1836, though paleontologists didn’t identify it as a newly discovered species until nearly two decades later.

For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights into their family tree. An African lion, moving through tall grasses ...