The Trinil Tiger (Panthera tigris trinilensis) is a fossil tiger
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The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in t
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The Trinil Tiger (Panthera tigris trinilensis) is a fossil tiger
Tiger
The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an Carnivore#Obligate carnivores.... dating from about 1.2 million years ago. This tiger was found at the locality of Trinil
Trinil
Trinil is a paleoanthropology site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency, East Java Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesia. It was at this site in 1891 that the Netherlands anatomist Eug?ne Dubois discovered the first early Hominidae remains to be found outside of Europe: the famous "Java Man" specimen.... , Java, Indonesia
Indonesia
The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state.... . These fossils are now stored in the Dubois
Eugène Dubois
Marie Eug?ne Fran?ois Thomas Dubois was a Netherlands anatomist. He earned world-wide fame for his discovery of Homo erectus, or 'Java Man'.... Collection of the National Museum of Natural History
Naturalis
The National Natural History Museum, or Naturalis, is the national natural history museum for the Netherlands, based in Leiden. It originated from the merger of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie and the Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie in 1984.... in Leiden
Leiden
Media:Nl-Leiden.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants.... , the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.... . Although these fossils have been found on Java, the Trinil Tiger is probably not a direct ancestor of the Javan Tiger
Javan Tiger
The Javan tiger was a tiger limited to the Indonesian island of Java . It now seems likely that this subspecies was made extinct in the 1980s, as a result of hunting and habitat destruction, but the extinction of this subspecies became increasingly probable from the 1950s onwards, when it is thought that fewer than 25 tigers remained in the... . The Trinil Tiger probably became extinct fifty thousand years ago.
