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A 124-pound cougar shot by Chicago police earlier this month is the same wild animal that was spotted in southern Wisconsin in January, Cook County officials said today, April 30, 2008. DNA taken from the cat killed April 15 in Roscoe Village matches genetic material found in Rocky County, Wisconsin, following a cougar sighting there […]

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Cryptomundo field correspondent Evan Livada passes along the breaking news of the possible return of active cougar sightings from southern Maine. Taken seriously by local residents, the encounters are getting the typical skeptical official and media reaction. One has to wonder, since physical evidence has confirmed their presence in the past, then why the overtly […]

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Dan Rozek of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that more sightings of large felids are being recorded in the Chicago area: Searchers swooped low over the Skokie Lagoons in a helicopter today to look for signs of a cougar after several reported sightings of a big cat there — including a sighting Tuesday, a day after […]

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The story of the cougar killed in Chicago, detailed here yesterday, was documented by the visual news organizations. Here’s the video. The crowd of onlookers included representatives of the media.

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“Cougars don’t exist in Illinois,” we have all been told for years, especially before two 21st century incidents began to alert people to the notion eyewitnesses seeing the cats weren’t crazy. “They are extinct in the state,” officialdom still claimed. Now, beyond belief, a cougar or puma or mountain lion, whatever you wish to call […]

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Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks game warden Tracy Galvin displays the pelt of a mountain lion that was killed in Barber County last November [2007]. Galvin has been investigating the rumor that a mountain lion had been killed in Kansas for the past several weeks. This is probably the first […]

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Eric Drummond Smith, over at Hillbilly Savants, has done a great and fair job of rounding up several recent blogs and sites about the possible survival of eastern cougars. Hillbilly Cryptozoology: Cougars Some folks seem to think cougars are “back” in Appalachia, either having gradually migrated from the American West or down the chain from […]

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On display at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology: The verified casts (one shown above, the other below) of credible eastern cougar tracks found in Massachusetts in 1990. Naturalist Helen McGinnis’ of the Eastern Cougar Foundation, during January 2007, has raised some questions about the above during their “Project Hoax.” A Mystery Melanistic Felid captured on […]

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Last October, I posted an article entitled Michigan DNR To Take Cougar Sightings Seriously here on Cryptomundo. Roar of Michigan cougar debate grows louder Francis X. Donnelly / The Detroit News TRAVERSE CITY — No cougars live in Michigan, say some state and federal wildlife officials. But a conservation group believes so many of the […]

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With all of the sightings lately of cougars from all over the US reported here at Cryptomundo, we are thinking about changing our name to Cougarmundo. Well, not really, but there have been a lot of cougar or mountain lion sightings in unexpected places lately. Readers may wonder about all of the postings here on […]

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Proof of cougars remains elusive If they’re not here, they soon will be, state researcher says STEVENS POINT — A year-long search failed to turn up positive proof that mountain lions are present in Wisconsin, but the study’s leader is far from dismayed. “We’re still looking, but I don’t think it (finding conclusive evidence) is […]

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Mountain Lion Sightings In Northern Kentucky Last Update: 1/9/2007 7:36:43 AM Local 12 WKRC-TV Cincinnati Watch This Video A mountain lion is spotted running loose near a local neighborhood. In the past three weeks, six people reported seeing the big cat. It was first seen near Camp Springs, just off the AA Highway in Campbell […]

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An anonymous Cryptomundo reader just tipped us off to this story. Cougar plays starring role in Manitoba history books Big cat caught live in photos Tue Jan 9 2007 By Martin Zeilig Winnipeg Free Press PHOTOGRAPHIC history has been made with the first-ever pictures of a wild cougar roaming rural Manitoba. Click on image for […]

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Companion piece to Another Cougar Conspiracy? Cougars in Illinois? Quite a few sane and sensible citizens have concluded that Felis concolor dwells here again Essay by James Krohe Jr. Democratic governors came back to Illinois — why not cougars? Officially, Illinois has no wild cougars; the cougar is not listed as an endangered species in […]

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Here we go again with another cougar conspiracy. Rural legends: Cougars roam southern Illinois Posted: Friday, Dec 29, 2006 – 02:32:00 pm EST By Tom Dunn – Register Staff Writer Daily Republican Register Mt. Carmel, Illinois Many levelheaded residents will swear that cougars now live in southern Illinois, while the powers that be will testify […]

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