Mini-Tiger!

Galvasean

Looks like tigers haven't changed a whole lot in over 2 million years, except that they've gotten bigger of course.
Fantastic name, Panthera zdanskyi.

Full article here.


Illustrations by Velizar Simeonovski.

Mickeroo

Quite similar to sharks in a way I suppose which have more or less stayed the same(apart from size too) for even longer.

Galvasean

think the 'sharks stayed the same' nugget is a tad misleading. They've had an absolutely dazzling variety through the ages.

Helicoprion


Goblin shark


Hammerhead:


Thresher shark:


Cookie cutter:

(image not 100% accurate)

Whale shark:


Saw-tooth shark:


and of course,

Megalodon!!!!!

Mickeroo

Ah yeah I know there's plenty of different variations alright the cookie cutter is the stuff of nightmares.

I just meant how the likes of great whites have been knocking around for 16 million years or so!

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

think the 'sharks stayed the same' nugget is a tad misleading. They've had an absolutely dazzling variety through the ages.

Helicoprion


Goblin shark


Hammerhead:


Thresher shark:


Cookie cutter:

(image not 100% accurate)

Whale shark:


Saw-tooth shark:


and of course,

Megalodon!!!!!

Hahaha the cookiecutter shark is adorable!

Awesome, a mini-prehistoric tiger Very cool find. I do wonder, though... why is the reconstruction above so long-snouted? I mean the skull doesn´t seem very elongated, and tigers actually have shorter, more housecat-like skulls than lions. The illustration above seems too lion-like to me. Or maybe its just that they didn´t add a lot of fur?

Galvasean

The picture looks very jaguar esque to me, and not just colour-wise.

Mickeroo

Galvasean wrote: »

The picture looks very jaguar esque to me, and not just colour-wise.

True, the mouth area looks more tiger like I think though.