The term "American lion" has sometimes been used to mean the cougar.
This article is about the feline. For the Pulitzer-winning biography, see American Lion (book).
The American lion (Panthera atrox) — also known as the North American lion or American cave lion — is an extinct feline of thefamily Felidae, endemic to North America during the Pleistocene epoch (1.8 mya to 11,000 years ago), existing for approximately1.79 million years.[1] While it was once considered a subspecies of lion closely related to the Eurasian cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea),[2] later study showed that it was not in fact a true lion and cannot be assigned to any modern species of cat.[3]
The American lion was one of the largest types of cat ever to have existed, slightly larger than the Early Middle Pleistocene primitive cave lion, P. leo fossilis and about twenty-five percent larger than the modern African lion.[4]
I don't know what happened, it just turn white. So click on the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lion to see the full article.
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