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An overview of the carnivores in my sabertooth story.

I - Human (Homo sapiens)
Mind you, the size comparison is a modern human for convenience! The contemporary hominids, Homo erectus, were only 1,60m tall and as such only about a head taller than the Mosbach Lion...

II - Mosbach Lion (Panthera leo fossilis)
The European Middle Pleistocene cave lion was one of the largest, heaviest cats that ever existed. The size comparison shows an adult male with a shoulder height of 135 cm and a weight of 350 kg upwards! The lions in my story will not be all that huge, but that there is the real thing. These lions were ambush hunters and preferred forest habitat.

III - Kali (Homotherium crenatidens)
The giant scimitars belong more to earlier ages, but I'll have the last of them barely survive until the Midlde Pleistocene. Kali is as big as they got - 400 kg weight, and a height of over 120cm at the shoulders. Her body is shorter than a lion's, but she weighs even more, all pure muscle. What she gets in her powerful grasp has no chance of escaping.

IV - Tacimur (Homotherium crenatidens)
Taci is a more moderate example for the giant scimitar cats. She too however is more compact than any pantherine cat. Like all scimitars, she is fond of open plains and a restless wanderer.

V - Jarmara (Panthera leo fossilis)
He's a young male leucistic cave lion that's already fairly strong and larger than a modern day lion, but a long way from reaching the full size that his species is capable of. But since I'll downsize the lions for my story a bit, the actual difference will not be as notable as in this table.

VI - Eurasian Scimitar Cat (Homotherium latidens)
The true Pleistocene scimitar cats of Europe were 115 cm in height, but mostly due to their elongated forelimbs. They were enduring joggers and runners, much unlike today's big cats. At up to 250 kg weight they were nothing to take easily, either. Their preferred prey were adolescent mammoths and other pachyderms, but they'd catch wild horses and other animals if they got the chance.

VII - Giant Cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis)
This cat existed for a long time throughout much of Europe and Asia. It's shoulder height was 100 cm. Basically, it was a cheetah the size of a modern lioness, and probably even faster than today's cheetah. It lived in a similar way, and it was specialized in hunting the faster plains herbivores.

VIII - Cave Hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
The cave hyena was larger than its modern counterpart and lived in the open plains as well. It was 100 cm tall at the shoulder and weighed around 90 kg. Not many animals were safe from these predators, not even rhinos. It's unknown if the cave hyena lived in packs.

IX - Eurasian Wolf (Canis lupus)
With hyenas, cheetahs and scimitar cats running the plains, wolves had an easier time in the forests, where they competed for food with the Mosbach Lion, the European Jaguar and leopards.

Description
Download for larger size!

An overview of the carnivores in my sabertooth story.

I - Human (Homo sapiens)
Mind you, the size comparison is a modern human for convenience! The contemporary hominids, Homo erectus, were only 1,60m tall and as such only about a head taller than the Mosbach Lion...

II - Mosbach Lion (Panthera leo fossilis)
The European Middle Pleistocene cave lion was one of the largest, heaviest cats that ever existed. The size comparison shows an adult male with a shoulder height of 135 cm and a weight of 350 kg upwards! The lions in my story will not be all that huge, but that there is the real thing. These lions were ambush hunters and preferred forest habitat.

III - Kali (Homotherium crenatidens)
The giant scimitars belong more to earlier ages, but I'll have the last of them barely survive until the Midlde Pleistocene. Kali is as big as they got - 400 kg weight, and a height of over 120cm at the shoulders. Her body is shorter than a lion's, but she weighs even more, all pure muscle. What she gets in her powerful grasp has no chance of escaping.

IV - Tacimur (Homotherium crenatidens)
Taci is a more moderate example for the giant scimitar cats. She too however is more compact than any pantherine cat. Like all scimitars, she is fond of open plains and a restless wanderer.

V - Jarmara (Panthera leo fossilis)
He's a young male leucistic cave lion that's already fairly strong and larger than a modern day lion, but a long way from reaching the full size that his species is capable of. But since I'll downsize the lions for my story a bit, the actual difference will not be as notable as in this table.

VI - Eurasian Scimitar Cat (Homotherium latidens)
The true Pleistocene scimitar cats of Europe were 115 cm in height, but mostly due to their elongated forelimbs. They were enduring joggers and runners, much unlike today's big cats. At up to 250 kg weight they were nothing to take easily, either. Their preferred prey were adolescent mammoths and other pachyderms, but they'd catch wild horses and other animals if they got the chance.

VII - Giant Cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis)
This cat existed for a long time throughout much of Europe and Asia. It's shoulder height was 100 cm. Basically, it was a cheetah the size of a modern lioness, and probably even faster than today's cheetah. It lived in a similar way, and it was specialized in hunting the faster plains herbivores.

VIII - Cave Hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
The cave hyena was larger than its modern counterpart and lived in the open plains as well. It was 100 cm tall at the shoulder and weighed around 90 kg. Not many animals were safe from these predators, not even rhinos. It's unknown if the cave hyena lived in packs.

IX - Eurasian Wolf (Canis lupus)
With hyenas, cheetahs and scimitar cats running the plains, wolves had an easier time in the forests, where they competed for food with the Mosbach Lion, the European Jaguar and leopards.