With a range that covered most of northern Eurasia and parts of North America, the cave lion
(Panthera spelaea) was one of the most widespread carnivores of the Late Pleistocene …

The cave lion is an extinct felid that was widespread across the Holarctic throughout the Late
Pleistocene. Its closest extant relative is the lion (Panthera leo), but the timing of the …

Lions were the most widespread carnivores in the late Pleistocene, ranging from southern
Africa to the southern USA, but little is known about the evolutionary relationships among …

Background Understanding the demographic history of a population is critical to
conservation and to our broader understanding of evolutionary processes. For many tropical …

Lions are one of the world's most iconic megafauna, yet little is known about their temporal
and spatial demographic history and population differentiation. We analyzed a genomic …

The Pleistocene epoch was a period of dramatic climate change that had profound impacts
on the population sizes of many animal species. How these species were shaped by past …

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is one of the Late Pleistocene megafauna species that
faced extinction at the end of the last ice age. Although it is represented by one of the largest …

The causes of the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions are still enigmatic. Although the
fossil record can provide approximations for when a species went extinct, the timing of its …

The extinct cave lion (Panthera spelaea) was an apex predator of the Pleistocene, and one
of the largest felid species ever to exist. We report the first mitochondrial genome sequences …

It is difficult to predict how current climate change will affect wildlife species adapted to a
tropical rainforest environment. Understanding how population dynamics fluctuated in such …