Please enjoy this video examining the evolutionary history of the Pantherine cats, from their humble origins in Late Miocene Asia to the lions, tigers and leopards of today.

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Papers Referenced:

de Bonis, L.; Chaimanee, Y.; Grohé, C.; Chavasseau, O.; Mazurier, A.; Suraprasit, K.; Jaeger, J. J. (2023). "A new large pantherine and a sabretoothed cat (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the late Miocene hominoidbearing Khorat sand pits, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeastern Thailand". The Science of Nature. 110 (5). 42. Bibcode:2023SciNa.110...42D. doi:10.1007/s00114023018674. PMID 37584870. S2CID 260901770.

Hemmer, H. (29 March 2023). "The evolution of the palaeopantherine cats, Palaeopanthera gen. nov. blytheae (Tseng et al., 2014) and Palaeopanthera pamiri (Ozansoy, 1959) comb. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi:10.1007/s12549023005715. S2CID 257842190.

Hemmer, Helmut (2023). "The identity of the "lion", Panthera principialis sp. nov., from the Pliocene Tanzanian site of Laetoli and its significance for molecular dating the pantherine phylogeny, with remarks on Panthera shawi (Broom, 1948), and a revision of Puma incurva (Ewer, 1956), the Early Pleistocene Swartkrans "leopard" (Carnivora, Felidae)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 103 (2): 465–487. doi:10.1007/s12549022005422.

Jiangzuo, Qigao; Wang, Yuan; Ge, Junyi; Liu, Sizhao; Song, Yayun; Jin, Changzhu; Jiang, Hao; Liu, Jinyi (2023). "Discovery of jaguar from northeastern China middle Pleistocene reveals an intercontinental dispersal event". Historical Biology. 35 (3): 293–302. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2034808. S2CID 246693903.