A feline find

A geoglyph has been discovered on a hillside in the Nazca desert of Peru during the emergency project ‘Cleaning, Conservation and Restoration of the Geoglyphs of the Mirador Natural, Nazca’. Researchers were modifying a viewpoint in January 2020 when they observed lines that did not appear to be natural on a nearby slope. After securing drone images and processing these photos, they were able to identify a feline figure, which was cleaned and conserved at the end of the project in November. The geoglyph is on a side of the slope that is not often seen by visitors, and the lines had been both eroded and obscured by falling stones over the years, explaining how the figure escaped notice fo