Genetic testing of two tiny tiger cats from Bolivia revealed a new species, adding a new branch to the feline family tree.

Leopardus tilcayo. (Juan Karita/AP Photo) It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to ...

Scientists have identified a new wild cat species in Bolivia's cloud forests. This small, slender cat is known locally as Tilcayo and has been formally named. Genetic analysis revealed it is distinct ...

Discovered in a cloud forest in Brazil, the diminutive felines are smaller than a house cat and covered in large, irregularly shaped rosettes ...

Researchers say they’ve identified a new species of wild cat previously unknown to science. The Tilcayo tiger cat is smaller than a typical house cat and lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.

In 2017, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a biologist and National Geographic Explorer working in Bolivia, received a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had just been given what they described as "a ...

Scientists identified Leopardus tilcayo, a tiny spotted wild cat from Bolivia, as a distinct species after genetic analysis showed it split from related tiger cats about 1.4 million years ago.

Stalking through Bolivia's cloud forest in South America is a feline a bit smaller than a house cat that was unknown to science until now. Leopardus tilcayo is the first species of cat discovered in ...

A tiny wild cat that lives in Bolivia’s lush cloud forests has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time in more than a century that a new living feline species has been ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — 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, ...

For more than a century, every new wild cat species turned out to be a reclassification of something already known — never a genuinely unfamiliar animal. A pape ...

Scientists have discovered a new cat species for the first time in 100 years, and the internet is collectively losing its mind! In a TikTok posted by National Geographic, the outlet shared a new ...