Adorable Photos of the First New Cat Species Discovered in Over a Century

A close-up portrait of a small, spotted wild cat with large brown eyes and prominent whiskers against a black background.

10 years ago, National Geographic Explorer and biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz was working in Bolivia when she got a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had received "a weird cat." Today, that "weird cat" has been officially identified as a new species, Leopardus tilcayo. This is the first time in over a century that scientists have formally named and described a new living cat species.

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