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The American “cheetah” wasn’t a cheetah at all
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle
- Fossils from the Yukon suggest northern populations survived partly by eating fish, possibly including salmon, while southern cats hunted on land
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The extinct “American cheetah” was not really a cheetah at all, but a puma relative with an unexpectedly flexible lifestyle. Fossils from the Yukon suggest northern populations survived partly by eating fish, possibly including salmon, while southern cats hunted on land.
