Sentence examples for modern lion from inspiring English sources

A modern lion, for example, might easily outwit an ancient antelope, but it might be no better at outwitting modern antelopes than ancient lions were at outwitting ancient antelopes, and vice versa.

Named for the pair of elongated bladelike canine teeth in their upper jaw, they are often called sabre-toothed tigers or sabre-toothed lions, although the modern lion and tiger are true cats of the subfamily Felinae.

Smilodon was around the size of a modern lion or tiger, but was more robustly built.

In addition, Smilodon's gape could have reached almost 120 degrees, while that of the modern lion reaches 65 degrees.

The act was billed as "Daniel in a modern lion's den", and attracted large audiences, including a significant number of clergy.

We thank L. Hunter and J. C. Ray of the Wildlife Conservation Society for providing the modern cheetah distribution data and K. Minkowski for providing the modern lion distribution data.

That's almost two thirds of a modern Lions tour.

Scientists have found in the Tibetan Himalayas the fossil skull of the oldest known big cat, the precursor to all modern lions, tigers and leopards, pushing back the fossil record of these animals by at least 2m years and lending weight to the idea that they evolved in Asia, rather than Africa, where the previous oldest fossil was found.

The creature, which they believe to be a sister species of the snow leopard, was a dwarf compared with modern lions and tigers.

According to BBC, unraveling the history and origin of modern lions has been difficult because of a gap in their fossil record.

In females reported head-body lengths range from 140-175 cm, tail lengths of 70 100 cm, however, the frequently cited maximum head and body length of 250 cm fits rather to extinct Pleistocene forms, like the American lion, with even large modern lions measuring several centimetres less in length.