A search for wild cats in Texas led me to stumble upon a species of cat I have never heard of — the jaguarundi.

A few weeks ago, my coworker Celeste and I were driving back from a beach cleanup and as we were headed back to Lake Jackson, ...

Meanwhile, jaguarundis are also extinct in Texas due to loss of habitat. The last confirmed sighting of a jaguarundi in Texas was in Brownsville in 1986, according to the the department's website.