I'm so happy for this I think I might cry!! LOL TONY the TIGER!! WOOT!! TIGER LILIES!!!
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RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!
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Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Oh WOW, Chris!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!! 
Yeah, we all are too. I've seen Laurie's map work on this tiger and it is looking amazing!! This mane will finish it out nicely. I'm confident this tiger will please a lot of folks, and will look the best by far, more so than any other tiger currently available.
I can finally upgrade Tiger In Lilies!!
What a beautiful image!
WOW! At long last, a Tiger!!
Hey Chris, does this mean we might just see a leopard soon????? Curious minds (at least this one) wants to know.
Don't know. Let's get this Tiger first.
An Ancient Snow Leopard!
Panthera blytheae, a fossil Snow Leopard discovered in Tibetan Himalayas, is a sort of "missing Link". Among the felines, the big cats were the first group to split off from a common ancestor into their own branch (the small cats split off later) and the oldest fossil of a big cat ever found was Panthera blytheae. It is a sister species to the modern Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia, its closest relative. It is about the size of a clouded leopard, 10% smaller than the living Snow Leopard based on the size of the cranium (only the skull and jaw were discovered). As a sister to the snow leopard, it can't be the oldest big cat fossil out there, although it suggests a great stability in the adaptations of the snow leopard line over millions of years. So there may be even more cat discoveries to come from the Tibetan Plateau.
For more information see Fossil Find Clears Up Big Cat Origins.
Read the original Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.2686.
Panthera blytheae
The closest living relative of the Snow Leopard is the Tiger. The Jaguar, Lion and Leopard diverge later and are on a separate line of descent.
Panthera blytheae, a fossil Snow Leopard discovered in Tibetan Himalayas, is a sort of "missing Link". Among the felines, the big cats were the first group to split off from a common ancestor into their own branch (the small cats split off later) and the oldest fossil of a big cat ever found was Panthera blytheae. It is a sister species to the modern Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia, its closest relative. It is about the size of a clouded leopard, 10% smaller than the living Snow Leopard based on the size of the cranium (only the skull and jaw were discovered). As a sister to the snow leopard, it can't be the oldest big cat fossil out there, although it suggests a great stability in the adaptations of the snow leopard line over millions of years. So there may be even more cat discoveries to come from the Tibetan Plateau.
For more information see Fossil Find Clears Up Big Cat Origins.
Read the original Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2013.2686.
Panthera blytheae
The closest living relative of the Snow Leopard is the Tiger. The Jaguar, Lion and Leopard diverge later and are on a separate line of descent.
Tiger Mane UVs now complete and will be off to Laurie and others in a matter of minutes.
Also so folks know, this Tiger Mane has also been created on the base Leopard, so it will work with Leopard shape as well as others.
Tiger morph and finished Mane UVs
Leopard base
Leopard base
Also so folks know, this Tiger Mane has also been created on the base Leopard, so it will work with Leopard shape as well as others.
Tiger morph and finished Mane UVs
Leopard base
Leopard base
Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
This is fabulous work Chris!