With a maximum head and body length of 2.40 meters, which is about half a meter longer than today's African lions, Panthera leo fossilis was almost as big as the American lion from the Upper Pleistocene.
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A 1.75 million- year-old lion-jaw from Olduvai in Kenya shows a striking similarity to those of Europe.
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The oldest records of Panthera leo fossilis in Europe are from Isernia at Italy and are about 700,000 years old.
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Many bone-fragments of this cat are known from Mosbach in Germany, a small village, which is now included in the town of Wiesbaden.
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