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If you liked this story, share it with other people. The San Pedro de Vice dry mangrove habitat on the northwest coast of Peru hosts a very small population of desert pampas cats (Leopardus garleppi).

Thorin’s 42,000-year-old DNA reveals 50,000 years of Neanderthal isolation, inbreeding and no mixing with modern humans.