Mystery Cats

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.