When Jaguars Roamed Europe

While the Pleistocene is often associated with cats such as the Saber-toothed cat Smilodon and the Scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium, there were also many fascinating big cats, or pantherines, during this time. Today I aim to cover one of those species, the European Jaguar, Panthera gombaszogensis, tracking everything from its evolution, range, to whether or not this cat was even a jaguar. Twitter/X: https://x.com/AnimalOrigins Thumbnail art by Petr Modlitba #paleontology #jaguar #iceage