
“All of today’s big cat species evolved less than 11 million years ago –just a blip in geologic time time”, yet their evolutionary tree and ancestry, remains as a mystery.
“Their ancestry is so hard for us to make out that it’s known as a ghost lineage. We simply don’t have enough fossils to understand their origins.”

How did lions evolve? The common ancestor of the Big Cats dates back 11 million years. But why is the evolutionary history of big cats a mystery?