Big cats traced to Asia, not America

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 11:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A nearly complete skull of a primitive cheetah that sprinted about in China more than 2 million years ago suggests the agile cats originated in the Old World rather than in the Americas.

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