Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir had no idea what he had found until scientists started to get in touch When wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded 18 seconds of footage to YouTube , he thought little more about the small, pale cat seen digging a hollow in the sand in the remote dunes of south-west Libya. The video, however, posted in 2017, turned out to be the first material evidence that the sand cat ( Felis margarita ), the world’s only felid adapted to true desert conditions, existed in the country. Continue reading...
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‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist
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