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Felines Rock!!

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A colored pencil art
The very author approved of this rendering, thank you sir very much.

The Longdan tiger or Panthera zdanskyi (Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011) is an extinct species of pantherine known from the Gansu province of northwestern China, the skull of which is dating to the Gelasian stage of the earliest Pleistocene, about 2.5 million years ago.

It is the oldest complete skull of pantherine species that's surprisingly similar to the tiger skull and thought to be a very basal species leading to the tiger lineage (but not the direct tiger ancestor).

This newly discovered tiger like pantherine was the size of large jaguars and possessed very prominent broad cheeks and the robust lower jaw.
It's got conspicuously long, large upper canines which proportionally outsize those of jaguars, leopards and lions and even a bit longer than tigers'.
Apart from elongated upper canines, there seems to be several morphological characteristics such as relatively elongated and prognathoustic muzzle, the less domed 'forehead' that are superficially paralelling features of sabertoothed cats rather than tigers'.

We don't know its body proportions yet but all those features(long canines, inferred high bite forces etc) mark the typical and excellent adaptation to the big game hunting and they must have been very robust in build. The relatively long back represented here, is the plesiomorphic character among felids.

The coat pattern is my original, like intermediary between jaguar-like big rossets and elongated tiger-like stripes. :)

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~Juho-Lee Mar 30, 2013
Looks like your skilss have not been dented, AWESomE!! I use to love your works but then I left now I've found you and am enjoying your drawings once more dearly.
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Mood: Wow! ~ClausThomsen Jan 23, 2013
Wow! This is clearly one of your best colored pictures!
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Mood: Wow! ~ClausThomsen Aug 18, 2012
Nice!
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~NoodleRAY Feb 16, 2012
WOW !!! This is really great thanks.
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~Tabbatha Dec 12, 2011  Student Digital Artist
I am a perfectly healthy person. *stares* dies of awesomeness.

Great job!
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~Jagroar Dec 12, 2011   Traditional Artist
That's one of the best compliments I've heard lol,
thank you very much for your interest=)
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~Tabbatha Dec 15, 2011  Student Digital Artist
xD keep it up
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*viergacht Dec 8, 2011  Professional General Artist
Once again, a gorgeous piece of art.
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~Jagroar Dec 9, 2011   Traditional Artist
Thank you for your interest viergacht, it's trully encouraging to me if an awesome artist like yourself come to like this piece.
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*viergacht Dec 9, 2011  Professional General Artist
Nah, I love your stuff. My fiance was looking over my shoulder as I was going though submissions and he admired it, too.
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