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Named Leopardus tilcayo, the new cat looks not unlike a leopard that shrank to the size of a house kitten. A new cat has been discovered in Bolivia, the first time in more than a century that scientists have confirmed a new feline species in the world. Named Leopardus tilcayo, after the word by which locals referred to it, the cat weighs roughly five pounds, is spotted with a slender body and has a light brown coat patterned with dark rosettes, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. It looks not unlike a leopard that shrank...

Synopsis: According to researcher Dr. Jerome Corsi, a British tribunal on Feb. will formally set Julian Assange free. The new direction was apparently the result of President Trump’s meeting on Thursday with British Prime Minister Teresa May. The Tribunal meets on Feb. 6 and thereafter, Assange will be free to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London without fear of arrest. Reuters reports that a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) affirmed that a successful ruling on Feb. 6 by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot would allow Assange to walk free. Ecuador announced on Jan. 11 that the Ministry of Foreign...

There’s a possibility our species will, in the not-too-distant future, be wiped out. Not by a meteor, but by simply no longer reproducing. Sterility won’t be the culprit, it will be the rise of the zeta males.You doubtlessly have heard of alpha and beta males – alphas being dominant and aggressive, and betas being pajama wearing, vegans with man-buns. While it may seem like those two options represent the bookends of the scale, there is a new, disturbing option emerging that may, and maybe should, mean the end of all human reproduction: the zeta male.The zeta male is so far...

Early humans living in Africa's open savannahs probably made easy pickings for large predatory cats, but a new study suggests that at least one of the meals didn't sit well. A large cat dining on the entrails of one our early ancestors thousands of years ago contracted an ulcer-causing bacteria that spread to lions, cheetahs and tigers and which persists to this day, a new study concludes.