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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Jun 10, 2024 · Some time ago, I released a mod expanding cenozoic animals choice for zt2. It brings 14 new species, including: cave hyena, dire wolf, two sabretooth cats, three species of chalicotheria, arsinoitherium, paraceratherium and others. I …

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.

Oct 11, 2020 · Cave hyenas were larger than today’s spotted variety and employed clan life to dominate the smaller wolves and solitary cave lions of their time with superior numbers. The only beasts that contended with them over their kills were the gigantic steppe brown bears of the Pleistocene, even larger than today’s Kodiak bears and presumably much ...