NEW DELHI â Sheâs waiting for him, as she has been all her life. But when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dined with Barack and Michelle Obama at a glittering banquet Sunday night, his wife wasnât by his side.
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.
1 Daeodon was the largest known entelodont that ever lived, at 12 ft long and 7 ft at the shoulder. 2  The largest known wild suid to ever exist was Kubanochoerus gigas, having measured up to 550 kg (1,210 lb) and stood more than 1.3 m (4.3 ft) tall at the shoulder. The heaviest known felid ever was the Ngangdong tiger (Panthera tigris soloensis) with the largest specimen weighing in at 470 kg. 2  The largest wolf is the dire wolf (Canis dirus) 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length and weighed between 50 kg (110 lb) and 79 kg (174 lb).