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Caving Team Discovers Rare Ice Age Cat Skeleton FromSouthwest Virginia Cave


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"Confirming the species will take at least a few more months, but he suspects it was an American Cheeta between 10,000 and 500,000 years old."

 

https://cardinalnews.org/2022/01/21/caving-team-discovers-retrieves-rare-ice-age-era-cat-skeleton-from-southwest-virginia-cave/?fbclid=IwAR3Oj-vSTlekB3VF9VUJMcqai7vCNKlGj7ysjN2bdF4bAnuYyu2aCsltjWc

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Cool find!  But, am I the only one who feels badly for that cat, trapped in total darkness and wandering alone deeper and deeper into the abyss until it finally succumbed to starvation.  I have a tendency the anthropomorphize things like this, but it seems to me that would be a terrible way to die.

 

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2 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

Cool find!  But, am I the only one who feels badly

No lol I literally just thought the same thing. 

*Frank*

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