largest extinct lion species
The Barbary lion was native to the Atlas mountain region of North Africa. It is considered one of the biggest lion species to have existed. The Barbary lion grew to lengths of between 7 feet, 9 inches and 9 feet, 2 inches. This species weighed anywhere from 600 to 660 pounds.
Often called the largest cat of all times, the American lion or Panthera atrox, is probably the best known of all prehistoric cats after Smilodon. It lived in both North and South America (from Alaska to Peru) during the Pleistocene epoch, and went extinct 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age.