Happy Friday! Exciting news for cat fans: A new species just dropped for the first time in more than 100 years. Leopardus tilcayo is a 5-pound wildcat with a scrunched-up face, short round ears, and leopard-like spots, and it was discovered after a Bolivian man took one home as a kitten, mistaking it for a house cat.

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