<P> Bone fragments of fossil spelaea lions indicate that they were bigger than the modern lion and had less specialized lower teeth, reduced lower premolars and smaller incisors . </P> <P> As indicated by the numerous art depictions, modern lions in the Balkans despite the fact of cooler climate, had less developed mane, lacking abdominal and lateral manes and ulnar hair . Οn the contrary, lions from Transcaucasia exhibited all these features . </P> <P> Lion fossils were excavated in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia . The oldest fossils excavated near Pakefield in the United Kingdom are estimated at 680,000 years old and represent P. fossilis . </P> <P> Late Pleistocene cave lion P. spelaea bone fragments date to between the Weichselian glaciation and the Holocene, and are between 109,000 and 14,000 years old . This lion was widely distributed from the Iberian peninsula, Southeast Europe, across most of northern Eurasia into Alaska . In Eurasia, it became extinct between 14,900 and 14,100 years ago, and survived in Beringia until 13,800 to 13,300 years ago . </P>

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