Curated category
Big cats
- LionFossils from the Middle Pleistocene era reveal a creature larger than today's lion. Paleontologists excavated bone fragments in caves across the United…
- TigerCarl Linnaeus described the tiger in 1758 within his work Systema Naturae. He assigned it the scientific name Felis tigris at that time.
- CougarThe word cougar comes from the Portuguese term çuçuarana, which itself traces back to the Tupi language of Brazil. In 1648, Willem Piso published a rendering…