New cat species identified for the first time in a century

More and more things like this will be happening,

Especially now that we can physically view the genome.

Say… Fifty years ago, we might have just called it a deformed Leopard, and moved on with our lives.

Hell, maybe we already did, and this was just the first time someone connected the dots.

Looks like someone also posted a bbc article about it about 5 hours before me. No real discussion there though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751222