New cat species identified for the first time in a century

Posted by rdmuser on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:36AM
from the cbc.ca dept.

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Re:New cat species identified for the first time in a century by Sath52 on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:39AM (#49753567)

More and more things like this will be happening,

Especially now that we can physically view the genome.

Say… Fifty years ago, we might have just called it a deformed Leopard, and moved on with our lives.

Hell, maybe we already did, and this was just the first time someone connected the dots.

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Re:New cat species identified for the first time in a century by rdmuser on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:35AM (#49754198)

Looks like someone also posted a bbc article about it about 5 hours before me. No real discussion there though.

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