The Onza: The Mystery Cat of the Sierra Madre
About 6 min readReported for five centuries as a cat that is not quite a puma — lighter, longer-legged, with striped legs and wolf-like ears — the onza was seemingly solved when DNA testing of a specimen killed near San Ignacio, Sinaloa, in January 1986 identified it as an ordinary North American puma; yet the hunters who saw it remain unconvinced, and the story will not die.