10/7/2026
Meet the Adorable and Tiny Tilcayo, the First Brand-New Cat Species Identified in More Than a Century
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Discovered in a cloud forest in Bolivia, the diminutive felines are smaller than a house cat and covered in large, irregularly shaped rosettes
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