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Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

by LiamPa on 10/18/20, 5:51 PM with 36 comments

• by dhosek on 10/18/20, 10:14 PM

  Surely I'm not the only one to be disappointed that there isn't a very large and ancient feline sneaking around among the lines eating mice and other small animals.

• by zachruss92 on 10/18/20, 9:07 PM

  I'm not saying I believe any of the crazy conspiracies related to the Nazca lines, but I really do wonder what they actually are.

  The mysteries behind a lot of these ancient megalithic structures make me wonder about how sophisticated these presumed primitive civilizations actually we're.

• by JdeBP on 10/18/20, 8:42 PM

  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820449 for original Peruvian coverage.

• by Pompidou on 10/19/20, 12:58 AM

  I believed cat was introduced in america by C.Columbus. Maybe it's another felinae ?

• by morganvachon on 10/18/20, 11:13 PM

  Fair warning: The link breaks the back button with a redirect loop.

• by callamdelaney on 10/18/20, 7:49 PM

  It has a road but they only just found out it's a cat?

• by kerng on 10/18/20, 9:29 PM

  Nyan cat!

  I thought at first this is fake - as it does look a little "funny". But it seems legit.

  This might indeed be the original Nyancat.

  Ancient hackers.

• by yumraj on 10/19/20, 12:53 AM

  Is it me or the cat looks very different from the usual Nazca lines drawings.

• by jdlyga on 10/19/20, 3:27 AM

  Must be from Sky Garden.

• by bmy78 on 10/19/20, 2:52 AM

  Is it an alien cat?

• by _where on 10/18/20, 10:32 PM

  I don’t think that’s necessarily a cat.

• by bigbubba on 10/18/20, 8:02 PM

  It sure does look like a cat, but maybe it's actually a runway for alien spacecraft.