The oldest big cat fossils ever found - from a previously unknown species "similar to a snow leopard" - have been unearthed in the Himalayas. http://bbc.in/1bnnXnz
The skull fragments of the newly-named Panthera blytheae have been dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old and their discovery supports the theory that big cats evolved in central Asia, not Africa.
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