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New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member

67 points · 19 comments · drgo

nemomarx · 1789743042 · focus · HN ↗
> Tiger cats previously had been considered a single species, but genetic studies decades ago suggested the existence of multiple species.
So more like they identified that part of the known population was a different species just now. It'll take more effort tagging and identifying other tiger cats to see if they also belong to this particular one?
1. technothrasher · 1789749130 · focus · HN ↗
  > It'll take more effort tagging and identifying other tiger cats to see if they also belong to this particular one?
  This effort is actually already ongoing. This splashy headline that seems to have crushed it on publicity front is actually just a small piece of the research currently being done on oncillas (aka tiger cats). The word on the grapevine for the past year or so is that the oncillas are going to get divided up into between five and twelve new species.

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