Cave lions are three extinct subspecies of large carnivorous land mammals in the species Panthera leo, (the lions), in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae.
The subspecies known by this name include:
- Panthera leo spelaea or P. spelaea, the Eurasian or European cave lion
- Panthera leo fossilis or P. spelaea fossilis or P. fossilis, the Early Middle Pleistocene European cave lion
- Panthera leo atrox or P. atrox, the American lion or American cave lion
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“In such an armor he may rise and raid
The dark cave after midnight, unafraid....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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