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Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
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Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years.

Edit: Updated source with higher quality photo. OP picture replaced with this photo.

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[-] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think that's a fox, or maybe the, now extinct, spectacled big snouted cat. /s

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's a pampas cat, per PBS.

Pampas cat wiki page.

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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