If you liked this story, share it with other people. The recent description of the tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo) from Bolivia comes amid a broader reassessment of wild cat taxonomy, with genetic ...

Attention cat lovers: There’s an adorable new addition to the feline family tree. L. tilcayo has a slender body, spotted fur and a ringed tail. It weighs roughly two kilograms, about as much as a ...

Researchers have described Leopardus tilcayo, a spotted tiger cat from Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forests—the first newly described living cat species in more than a century. DNA analysis revealed the ...

A tiny spotted wild cat from Bolivia that spent about a year living as a house pet has been identified as the first entirely new feline species discovered in more than a century, according to new ...

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 cat’s out of the bag: Researchers have identified a new feline species for the first time in over 100 years. The researchers announced the discovery of the tilcayo tiger cat in an article ...

A new breed of cat has been discovered for the first time in 100 years. Citing the journal Current Biology, NBC News reports that a new wild cat species dubbed leopardus tilcayo (or the tilcayo tiger ...

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia. By Kate Golembiewski A three-pound wildcat with leopardlike spots from ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher told AFP on Thursday. The Tilcayo tiger cat, a small feline with a spotted, ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher told AFP on Thursday. The tilcayo tiger cat, a small feline with a spotted, ...

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 ...

The world is abuzz with news of Leopardus tilcayo, a small wild cat that has been living secretly in the cloud forest of Bolivia. This is the first feline to be newly described to science for a ...