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Day 429#: Lake Cat
Today's animal of the day is the Lake Cat (Puma lacustris)!
Image credit: Hodari Shadowalker
This extinct species of puma lived from the Late Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene in what is now North America. Its remains were first found in 1933 at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho, though since then more fossils of this prehistoric cat have also been found in Arizona, Baja California, California, Texas, and Washington state. It was originally named Felis lacustris, which literally translates to "lake cat"; however, this was during a time when most cats other than the big cats were placed within the genus Felis. Eventually, they were placed in the genus Puma, since they seem to be more closely related to modern cougars and the extinct American cheetahs than they were to other cats, though there was also some debate over whether or not they were actually a type of prehistoric lynx. The lynx theory has since been disproven, though there's some talk about the lake cat potentially belonging to its own unique genus. But for now, it's being kept in Puma.
Photo credit: Michael Brett-Surman
The exact size of the lake cat is currently unknown, since it's mostly only known from a handful of jawbones and teeth. However, based on these, paleontologists think it was smaller than modern cougars but larger than a bobcat. It likely filled a similar niche to its Holocene relatives, though at a slightly smaller scale. When I first heard the name "lake cat", I thought these guys might have been semi-aquatic or at least more likely to go into the water, but to my knowledge, they weren't any better at swimming than today's cougars are (though cougars are still surprisingly good swimmers). Instead, their common name comes from the fact that the Hagerman Fossil Beds, where they were discovered, were once a thriving lake bed before drying up.