Zoology, Evolution of mammals, Paleoart, Wildlife art.
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Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
New paper out in @JVP_vertpaleo📖While at @AMNH in '22 I found a skull labelled Pseudaelurus, a wastebasket genus for felid which turned out to be the most complete cranium of Adelphailurus kansensis, an early-diverging machairodont🦁🔪
doi.org/10.1080/02724634.202…
🎨by @Gamarraptor
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
Hemmer, H., Kahlke, RD. Panthera pardus burgtonnae ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the Eemian of Burgtonna (Thuringia, Germany) – Late Pleistocene European leopards in a new perspective. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s12549-026-0…
"Beauty and the Beast" - Somewhere in the east Central Asia. Late Pleistocene.
"Evidence of ancient gene flow between modern and cave lions..."
Stanton, David W.G. et all: "Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions" Cell, 2026,
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
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/d…
"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/s12549-025-0…
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.2523901… (2026).
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
The full video is out now! Check it out below:
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Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
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/scia…
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/s41598-024-7…
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
Comparative study of the body proportions in Elephantidae and other large herbivorous mammals - Belyaev - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
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
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Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
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-biology/ful…
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
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
Velizar Simeonovski retweeted
Here you are seeing the first video of the melanistic tiger from Simlipal Tiger taken in DSLR camera with natures music in the background 💕
"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".
