Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now removed them from the Endangered Species list, where they had been placed in 1973. Until the late 1800s, cougars—also known as catamounts, mountain lions, panthers or pumas—were common throughout the Eastern United [&hellip
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