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Meet Earth's newest wild cat species, the first named in over a century
A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight : at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years.
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A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight : at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years. The discovery, reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology , marks the first time scientists have named and described a new living wild cat species in more than a century.
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