A Texas man snapped a photo over the weekend of what he believes to be a black panther near his home. Walker County resident Jerel Hall said he found the large, black wild cat lurking on his property in Huntsville, located about 70 miles north of Houston, on Saturday. The photo shows what appears to be a dark-colored feline, bigger than a house cat, with a long tail.

The expert has spoken.

I guess most everyone knows that except you. What a surprise. Here's something else for you to whine and cry about........ a chupacabra doesn't exist either.

Wow, I guess everything revolves around you.
Go brow beat your wife, she must be used to it.
My comment was about the expert referenced in the OP.
You're a condescending !#@*.

I've been married to the same wonderful gal for 38 years. How about you?

It's easy to debunk something that doesn't exist.

Actually, it is a logical improbability, some would argue, impossibility, to prove something does not exist without omniscience. A lack of evidence is not proof of non-existence as a lack of evidence only proves a lack of evidence. One might say that there is no evidence to claim that they do exist, but similarly there is no evidence to support the claim that the don't exist.

With some regularity, scientists have made discoveries of things that previously that had no evidence of their existence, and yet they exist. That is possible because a lack of evidence doesn't substantiate a lack of existence. For example, a recent meteor find revealed 3 minerals never before known to exist in nature. We didn't know they existed, yet they do.

My understanding is 11% of jaguars are black and that is what we call black panthers.

The jaguar range extends up to the tip of Texas and the boarder of Arizona and recently into it.

The jaguar population in Mexico is increasing gradually. Just for my own knowledge why couldn't they migrate farther north into Texas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/11/jaguar-population-is-increasing-in-mexico/

They certainly could, Tbar, but what are the odds that they all slipped through South Texas unnoticed and were discovered by every single East Texan? Most importantly…..EAST Texas. Keep that in mind.

My understanding is 11% of jaguars are black and that is what we call black panthers.

The jaguar range extends up to the tip of Texas and the boarder of Arizona and recently into it.

The jaguar population in Mexico is increasing gradually. Just for my own knowledge why couldn't they migrate farther north into Texas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/11/jaguar-population-is-increasing-in-mexico/

Yes, I think that is a stretch. I guess I was referring to Texas in general.

I hate to be the one. We definitely have black jaguars that range through Texas and New Mexico. So there are your “panthers”.

In East Texas? All through East Texas? Witnessed by just about every person in East Texas? Does that seem reasonable?

Living there? No. Passing through? Absolutely. Some people telling 2nd or 3rd hand account as their own? Probably but where there is smoke there is fire.

Living there? No. Passing through? Absolutely. Some people telling 2nd or 3rd hand account as their own? Probably but where there is smoke there is fire.