Oldest Big Cat Fossils Ever Found Unearthed in Tibet
- OurStudio
- Nov 13, 2013
- 1 min read
The oldest big cat fossils ever found—from a previously unknown species "similar to a snow leopard"—have been unearthed in the Himalayas.
The skull fragments of the newly-named Panthera blytheae have been dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old.
Their discovery in Tibet supports the theory that big cats evolved in central Asia—not Africa—and spread outward.
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