Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
12%
2 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
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Science
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A new cat species has been identified for the first time in more than a century — and it’s a three-pound miniature leopard lookalike.
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it → identify → century
The adorable feline, named Leopardus tilcayo, was identified in Bolivia’s lush Yungas forest after biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz was called about “a weird cat” given to a local wildlife sanctuary, National Geographic reported.
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Geographic → name → sanctuary
“I took a hundred pictures of it,” Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic Explorer and founder of the Bolivian Felids Research Program, told the outlet.
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Ascarrunz → take → outlet
A man initially took in the wild cat after stumbling upon it on a road near a forest, believing it was a domestic breed.
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it → take → forest
But after a year living beside the wild animal, the owner thought the creature might be better off at a sanctuary, the publication reported.
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publication → live → sanctuary
The tiny wonder — light brown, slender, and covered in rosette-shaped spots similar to a leopard’s — is part of a group of tiger cats that inhabit much of South America, researchers revealed Thursday in the journal Current Biology.
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researchers → cover → journal
The tilcayo is a mere 18 inches long and weighs just three pounds, making it smaller than the average house cat.
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it → weigh → cat
After photographing the cat for a booklet about Bolivia’s cat species in 2019, Nogales-Ascarrunz realized that the feline she photographed did not resemble other species of the genus Leopardus.
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she → photograph → Leopardus
A few years later, Nogales-Ascarrunz teamed up with Eduardo Eizirik, a geneticist at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and study co-lead Jonas Lescroart from the University of Antwerp to investigate the mysterious cat.
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Ascarrunz → team → cat
The team’s genetic analysis suggested the tilcayo lineage separated from other tiger cats about 1.4 million years ago.
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lineage → suggest → cats
“The more differences in their DNA, the longer the time that we estimate those lineages to have been physically separated,” Lescroart, study co-lead author, told Reuters.
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Lescroart → estimate → Reuters
The Leopardus tilcayo, with its short, round ears and scrunched-up face, is the first new cat species discovered since the pampas cat in 1923.
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tilcayo → scrunch → 1923
Little is still known about the tilcayo, including the size of its wild population, how it reproduces, what it eats, and how it lives day to day.
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it → know → day
Researchers hope the methods used to identify the brand-new Bolivian feline will help uncover more species worldwide.
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methods → hope → species
The new findings should also signal the need to expand conservation efforts to protect species, discovered or undiscovered, in complex mountain forests and beyond, Nogales-Ascarrunz argued.
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Ascarrunz → signal → forests
“Even in the cats, there are things out there that are undescribed, things that people haven’t found yet,” says Nogales-Ascarrunz.
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Ascarrunz → be → that
“So let’s go out and find them and protect them.”
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’s → let → them
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