Reset Password
If you've forgotten your password, you can enter your email address below. An email will then be sent with a link to set up a new password.
Cancel
Reset Link Sent
If the email is registered with our site, you will receive an email with instructions to reset your password. Password reset link sent to:
Check your email and enter the confirmation code:
Don't see the email?
  • Resend Confirmation Link
  • Start Over
Close
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service
Forgot password?
Blogs > bitchkitty2017 > My Blog

Africa's big lion!  

bitchkitty2017 71F
2245 posts
4/26/2019 2:44 am
Africa's big lion!
A story by Abdi Latif Dahir
It was a stroke of luck that one scientist soon would discover , by accident . For years , in a cabinet at the National Museums of Kenya .were stored the fossils of a predator that lived 22 million years ago in Africa. " Simbakubwa Kutokaafrika " , in Swahili for the " big lion from Africa.", was a gigantic mammalian carnivore that researchers now believe was possibly larger than a Polar Bear.
This creature was part of an extinct group of animals known as hyaenodonts .whose teeth resemble those of modern day Hyenas. In 2010 Ohio University paleontologist Nancy Stevens was working in Nairobi when she noticed a chunk of rock containing massive teeth at the museum .In 2013 paleontologist Matthew Borths also found the same fossils in a cabinet that was part of a collection marked " Hyenas". Borths reached out to Stevens who confirmed she had come across the same ..The Creatures jaw and other bones and teeth had been put there after being found at a site in Kenya in the late 1970's..The two collaborated on their findings and published them in the Journal of Vertabrate Paleontology this month .Scientists hope the findings could help them understand more about Hyaenodonts and other giant carnivorous predators .which also could help determine the large cats demise..
Dramatic climate changes contributed to most life of prehistoric animals and its assumed all animal living in climates that change from severe drought to severe wet ..precipitated the growth of grasslands about 10 million years ago and leading to the scarcity of prey including early elephants. In recent years scientists have been unearthing interesting fossils and unusually large creatures that have long been extinct and most of the fossils are very large predators ..such as this " big lion ".
bitchkitty2017 71F

4/26/2019 2:45 am

 Here kitty , kitty..lol ..imagine having a play date with this big kitty !


Awvboy60 66M

4/26/2019 4:13 am

 Don't think I would use the term Eat Me Big Boy. Just saying


bitchkitty2017 71F

4/26/2019 5:23 am
    Quoting  :
lol nope me either I have met some big cats but I have no desire to saddle up on this one..thanx


bitchkitty2017 71F

4/26/2019 5:25 am
    Quoting Awvboy60:
    Don't think I would use the term Eat Me Big Boy. Just saying
awww come on where is your sense of adventure..if I were to take you on a safari and asked you to play with the big boys I think you would at ;east consider it..i def would ...but not this guy though..hes a big 'un yes..thanx


scoupe42 60M
Ask me for a photo

4/26/2019 12:11 pm

 Hi my friend, we all learn new things from your blogs! Thx for sharing


bitchkitty2017 71F

4/26/2019 2:18 pm

 thanks always a pleasure to see you on here and commenting such nice things..


bitchkitty2017 71F

4/26/2019 2:36 pm

 ahhh I am missing my pictures that I posted and showed up when I posted them ...they are now gone...wtf?


87Hotpoker87 51M
31 posts
5/6/2019 2:48 am

 very good


Become a member to create a blog