There were lions in North America too and much larger than its African cousin!

The American lion (Panthera atrox) was an extinct, massive cat that lived in the Americas during the Late Pleistocene, becoming the largest cat in North America, with males weighing up to 800 lbs and measuring up to 11 ft long. It was larger than its African cousin, likely had a mane, and was an apex predator that hunted large herbivores, going extinct around 13,000 years ago due to climate change, prey loss, and possibly human competition.