Velizar Simeonovski

New paper out today where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that a unique jaw torus seen in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist biting forces using FEA🦁🔪 our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape👀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@ApexPredator227 Guys, this piece is not mine and it also appears to be AI

A cave lion successfully brigs down a cave bear and is about to land the killing bite to the bears neck. Artist is unknown atm, pls tag em in the comments if u know who it is.

"Diva" -The Lady of Azmaka. 7.2 million years ago. Late Miocene. Azmaka, Chirpan. Bulgaria. Spassov, N. et all : An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, doi.org/10.1007/s12549…

X. Sun, et all, The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (6) e2523901123, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… (2026).

The full video is out now! Check it out below: bit.ly/lions-hound-br…

UPDATE: Last week, lions were spotted on a fresh giraffe kill right in the middle of the road, and everyone has been dying to know how they managed to catch it. Turns out someone was there to film the entire hunt. Watch how these lions climb and mount the giraffe before it loses its footing and collapses to the ground. When it slipped, it was over for the giraffe! 😔

Insights on the evolution and adaptation toward high-altitude and cold environments in the snow leopard lineage | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Lopatin, A.V., Sotnikova, M.V., Klimovsky, A.I. et al. Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia. Sci Rep 14, 28016 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Comparative study of the body proportions in Elephantidae and other large herbivorous mammals - Belyaev - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

Check out this wonderful cover Storie of our paper that's out today on how compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic Tsavo lions! Thanks @diana_yates_ @UofIllinois news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1474…

Paper out today! We used tiny hair fragments from the teeth of the historic #TsavoLions to identify their prey 🦓🦒🦁 @CurrentBiology @FieldMuseum @IGBIllinois @UofIllinois cell.com/current-biolog…

Thanks to my great co-authors! @MalhiRipan @AlfredLRoca @jcatchen @VelizarSim & the others not on X: Tom Gnoske, Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Nduhiu Gitahi, Ogeto Mwebi, Bernard R. Agwanda

Here you are seeing the first video of the melanistic tiger from Simlipal Tiger taken in DSLR camera with natures music in the background 💕

@VilleSinkkonen really good one

"The sound of creation" #WorldLionDay2024 - "The lion's roar has been described as "the most magnificent and imposing sound in creation"...". Bernhard Grzimek "Among animals of Africa".

Алексeй Петрoвич Быстрoв

Inostrancevia with Scutosaurus. A tribute to the famous painting of Alexey Bystrov (in the comments)

Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Chase" -Homotherium and horses , Beringia