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Trinil Tiger Trinil Java Beringia Japan Sakhalin

The earliest fossils of tigers date back 1.6-1.8 million years ago in Java. Distinct fossils have also been found in China and Sumatra from 1-1.2 million years ago, including a subspecies called the Trinil tiger that lived 1.2 million years ago. Tigers spread to India, northern Asia, and eastern Beringia by the late Pleistocene, and may have been present in Alaska within the last 100,000 years, as evidenced by some fossil skulls. Fossils also indicate tigers once lived on islands like Japan, Borneo, and Palawan, where they evolved to be smaller than mainland forms.

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Trinil Tiger Trinil Java Beringia Japan Sakhalin

The earliest fossils of tigers date back 1.6-1.8 million years ago in Java. Distinct fossils have also been found in China and Sumatra from 1-1.2 million years ago, including a subspecies called the Trinil tiger that lived 1.2 million years ago. Tigers spread to India, northern Asia, and eastern Beringia by the late Pleistocene, and may have been present in Alaska within the last 100,000 years, as evidenced by some fossil skulls. Fossils also indicate tigers once lived on islands like Japan, Borneo, and Palawan, where they evolved to be smaller than mainland forms.

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The earliest fossils of true tigers are from Java, and are between 1.6 and 1.

8 million years old.


Distinct fossils are known from the early and middle Pleistocene deposits in China and Sumatra. A
subspecies called the Trinil tiger (Panthera tigris trinilensis) lived about 1.2 million years ago and is
known from fossils found at Trinil in Java.[15]

Tigers first reached India and northern Asia in the late Pleistocene, reaching eastern Beringia (but
not the American Continent), Japan, and Sakhalin. As evidenced by Sandra Herrington, some fossil
skulls that are morphologically distinct from lion skulls could indicate however that tigers might have
been present in Alaska within the last 100,000 years during the last glaciation. [16] Fossils found in
Japan indicate the local tigers were, like the surviving island subspecies, smaller than the mainland
forms, an example of insular dwarfism. Until the Holocene, tigers also lived in Borneo, as well as on
the island of Palawan in the Philippines.[17] As of the Middle Ages, Caspian tigers were noted to range
in the Pontic-Caspian steppes of Ukraine and southern Russia.[18]

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