Extinct animals size

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The Cave bear had a heavily built body with a large head, domed skull and the jaws bore distinctive teeth, which suggests that the animal was largely vegetarian. Cave bears were comparable in size to the largest modern-day bears. Male cave bears weighed about 400 –600 kg.




The European or Eurasian cave lion was one of the biggest cats of all time. It was 10% larger than modern African lion and slightly smaller than the American lion. The Cave lion weighed upto 317 kg.




The cave hyena is one of the best known mammals of the Ice Age. It was a highly specialized animal, with its progressive and regressive features being more developed than in its modern African relative. The European cave hyena was larger than its modern African cousin, having been estimated to weigh 102 kg.