The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

When is the next podcast episode

Was I the only one thinking that was a representation of man wearing a lion suit

Or is that lion man statue really a bear??

diego ice age

So it took years to determine that lions are lions.😊. The humans that went to north America 15,000 years ago, why aren’t they a separate whole new species from the humans in Asia??

I don’t get it. Humans brains 40k years ago were the same as today. I’d imagine humans with out intelligence would carve things. For instance they might have carved stuff from wood instead of rock that’s why we don’t find much from that time

Soooooo now that we have their genome sequence let’s use crispr case 9 or whatever it’s called to bring these baddies back along with the wholly mammoth 🦣 and make an Ice Age game park.

The American cave Lion was not as widespread as the other ones.

Siberia is an amazing place showing us animals from the past.

im sure the climate changed, but the flood might have had something to do with their extinction ?

what about the young mammoth that in in ottawa. It was fully intact, iv seen the model of it.

It's crazy people stillthink they are lions while multiple scientists have already concluded that they are a seperate species

Just to be a fly on the wall for 1 day back then.

Humans so amazing creative , pity that homo sapiens appear to have helped wipe out the mega mamals & birds. From northern eurasia , Americas and even Australasia

and? where's the answer to the obvious question of where and why 3 different species in 3 different habitats disappear?? why didn't they migrate somewhere instead of just dying off? I mean, aren't these more important questions for an educational reel?

Wonder how they lit the cave

I think they were Ligers.

Background music is distracting.

Come inside my pretty pain cave lion. Pretty pretty pain cave lion, pain cave lion.

Or, they carved it that way because it was a narrow piece of ivory and they couldn't do it any other way. LOL

Maybe that ancient figurine combines human and animal characteristics. Or maybe lions 30,000 years ago walked upright.

Wasn’t the goddess Sehkmet portrayed as a having a woman’s body and a cat’s head?

Oh THANK YOU so much for not pushing the human over predation theory again!!! Seriously, as one who finds it extremely unlikely that humans were able to kill enough of almost every megafauna species on the NA continent to prevent them from being able to procreate, I truly appreciate you not giving more than the minimum amount of lip service to the current mainstream hypotheses regarding why these animals went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Personally I lean heavily in favor of the catastrophic explanation since that’s where the evidence and common sense points to.

Don’t bother YELL-TYPING at me if you disagree. I don’t read responses.

Or it isn't a fusion & it's a cave lion standing on back legs, like a house cat.

Ancient lions hung out in caves because there were no cardboard boxes.

CLONE...CLONE...CLONE

Quelli che dicono che noi gesticoliamo...

The statue looks more like Heracles sporting the skin of the Nemean Lion.
The ancient Greeks were know to have garnered much of their legend from older legends and then drawn them together to form their own mythology. Could it be that the story of Heracles and the Nemean Lion dates back to a much older tribal legend that was told in stone-age Germany over 40,000 years ago?

what if the combination of humans and animals isn't just imagination or creativity but some extraterrestrial being

I wonder if one day they can actually 'recreate' a Cave Lion like they did fictionally the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park franchise?

Seems like the goddesses Bast and Sekhmet were around long before the Egyptians.

I bet it won't be long before it's taken as proof that Africans were the first settlers there

el primer furro

Anthropologists: "We cant tell if this object is purely artistic or ritualistic in nature."
Some Early Human: "Im Catman!"

"The figurine is beautiful" PFFFT! I nearly spat out my tea, good one PBS Eons.

Why a fusion of man & cat? Why not a man wearing a large cat pelt with the head of the lion over his head (like Hercules wears the Nemean Lion skin) Perhaps this was a sculpture of their leader or shaman. Just saying.

What about Cave Johnson? I think he prefers a lab than a cave

its a doll with a lion skin coat.

Modern humans: this articacft seems to be a complex figurine with unknown importance

Cave man: Ho.uh...ah......HAHAHAHHA CAT MAN!!!!!

I lnow Voltron is real!!!!

As much as I love all this , I don’t think we should EVER bring back anything that went extinct over 100,000 years… it’s a reason they didn’t last , and it can chain react and change everything we know entirely

Caveman 1 - Hey Urok, look at me ! (Lifts dead lion head on his head) ME LION ! HAHAHAAH!

Cave-artist-man - EUREKA ! DONT MOVE ! I need to carve this ASAP.

Man I miss Steve

wow, im in love! The plesticione AND my pretty PBS Plunker!!

It’s proof of man-bear-pig. I’m super cereal!

Cave drawings are all so mysterious in many ways what they learned inprises us today

Applied Bio question: Do we believe there will again be a large North American predator that can chase down pronghorns and horses? Could it descend from a horse? Horses scare me.

Cave lions were basically normal lions that traveled north a long time ago.

Paleofurry

These cave man draws better than me 😂