May 27, 2024 · The Cave Hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) was an extinct relative of the spotted hyena. These guys roamed the Eurasian landscape during the ice age. These hyenas were large and most likely lived similar to the spotted hyena. These guys were true menaces, they had even pushed the wolves to hunt in the woodlands.

Jan 11, 2024 · For a cave hyena, that's more around the 100 kg. Dire wolves, much like the 'true' wolves in Europe, would likely be forced to do some niche partioning there. Also, being a hypercarnivore doesn't instantly mean you're the better hunter.

Nov 22, 2023 · Barnett et al., 2016 (Mitogenomics of the Extinct Cave Lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), Resolve its Position within the Panthera Cats - Open Quaternary) claims cave+American lions and African lions diverged at ~1.9 mya based solely on a single mtDNA lineage (cave lion mtDNA haplogroup A is supposedly the most divergent mitochondrial ...

Dec 21, 2020 · The Cave Hyena was a paleosubspecies of the Spotted Hyena This has actually come into question recently. Rather, steppe/cave hyenas are being considered a distinct species (Crocuta spelaea). I recommend reading this publication for the reasoning.

Nov 1, 2018 · There’s actually one cave where we have evidence of cave lions, spotted hyenas (of the cave hyena subspecies), grey wolves, and cave bears all fighting each other. The lions came into hunt the hibernating bears while the hyenas and wolves actually set up dens in the cave and fought each other, as well as taking the occasional injured cave ...

Sep 20, 2023 · Even the size difference between the cave hyena and grey wolf is similar to the size difference between the modern hyena and AWD In fact, I think grey wolves fit the same niche in pleistocene europe that african wild dogs do in africa, so that includes rivalries with the other carnivores like hyenas, lions, leopards, etc.

Aug 12, 2022 · There is one limiting factor if we decide to mammophant the cave hyena: its reproductive system. Since both the spotted hyena and the cave hyena belong to the genus Crocuta, the females have male-like genitalia. A considerable number of cub and mother fatalities have occurred all because the cub got stuck while the mother was giving birth.

Dec 3, 2020 · The cave hyena was a highly specialised animal, with its progressive and regressive features being more developed than in its modern African relative. It preyed on large mammals (primarily wild horses, steppe bison and woolly rhinoceros), and was responsible for the accumulation of hundreds of large Pleistocene mammal bones in areas including ...

May 17, 2020 · The first difference is the much greater size, and in Late Pleistocene specimens from Europe, the cave hyena's metacarpals and metatarsals are shorter and thicker, while the humerus and femur are longer, thus indicating adaptations to a different habitat from that of the modern spotted hyena.

Nov 19, 2019 · The Cave Hyena was a paleosubspecies of the Spotted Hyena that ranged from the Iberian Peninsula to eastern Siberia.