New cat, ancient art and rescued treasures: science looks back and ahead

In recent days, science has shown how past and present touch each other. An unknown cat species emerges in Bolivia, ancient ivory art turns out to be more carefully crafted than thought, and in Alaska archaeologists rescue fragile treasures just in time. Three very different stories, but all of them reveal how much there is still to discover and preserve. Start with the cat. In Bolivia, a new cat species has been identified for the first time in over a hundred years: Leopardus tilcayo [1]. The story begins in 2016, when someone brought a strangely-looking feline animal to an animal...