The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
Saturday 7 September 2013
A big cat prowled the Devon countryside more than a century ago, rediscovered remains from a museum's vaults have shown.
A Canadian lynx, a predator more than twice the size of a domestic cat, is the first proven case of an exotic big cat being at large in Britain.
Records show that the animal, thought to have escaped or been released from captivity, was shot by a Devon landowner in the early 1900s after it killed two dogs.
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