Rankings / Prehistoric / Land / Middleweight / Cave Lion
Prehistoric · PleistoceneLandMiddleweight
Cave Lion
Panthera spelaea · Northern Eurasia, Alaska and Yukon
Record
0–0
Win rate
–
Fight rating
1,500
Fighter stats
Estimates from fossils, for adults- Lived
- About 370,000 to 14,000 years ago
- Weight
- ~400–700 lb (estimated)
- Size
- Slightly larger than a modern lion
- Top speed
- Unknown
- Weapons
- Big canines, powerful claws
- Diet
- Carnivore: horses, deer, young mammoths, cave bears
- Lifespan
- Unknown
Power-ups
- Larger than today's lions
- Built for the cold
- Ambush power
Weak spots
- Big prey could fight back
- Hard winters
Fight record
Bars show the share of votes for the cave lion. A fight counts toward the record once it has 10+ votes.
In the wild
Sparta, a cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost, is about 28,000 years old and so well preserved her whiskers survived.
Source: smithsonianmag.comBoris, a second cub found at the same Siberian site, is about 43,000 years old.
Source: smithsonianmag.com