Contemporary snow leopards are rare — and fossils of their ancient ancestors are even more scarce. Researchers have now identified and examined million-year-old bones of the big cat and have come to some surprising conclusions about how it adapted to the Ice Age and survived as a species since then. Their analysis has been published in the journal Science Advances.
Learning About Snow Leopard Survival
The skull of the leopard of Algar da Manga Larga, deposited at the Geological Museum of Lisbon. © (Credit: Darío Estraviz-López©, 2019)
