Post Sep 17, 2026
NA National Geographic
@natgeo New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years. Smaller than an average housecat and covered in leopard-like spots, the cat species—proposed name Leopardus tilcayo—lives in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Its discovery is redrawing the branches of the cat family tree, and researchers hope the methods used to identify it could find even more new cat species around the world: https://on.natgeo.com/BRNG0917
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