Oldest big cat fossil found in Tibet

The oldest big cat fossils ever found - from a previously unknown species "similar to a snow leopard" - have been unearthed in the Himalayas. The skull fragments of the newly-named Panthera blytheae have been dated between 4.1 and 5.95 million years old. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24913291#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa