Al-Marsad Newspaper: The National Center for the Development of Wildlife announced that the bodies of 17 hunters were found in a Dahl in the north of the Kingdom, including mummies, which preserved all their details.
The center stressed the importance of this discovery because it provides very rare samples of the hunter-gatherer that was widespread in the Arabian Peninsula after a series of follow-ups, research and investigation by the center’s experts within the center’s program to examine caves and waters to identify the biodiversity in their environments.
The CEO of the National Center for Wildlife Development, Dr. Muhammad Ali Qurban, said that the cheetah has been a completely extinct species in the Arabian Peninsula for more than 50 years, and its specimens preserved in museums or research centers are very rare, and that these discovered specimens are the only physical evidence of its presence in the Kingdom.
He explained that the importance of the samples comes from the fact that they are the first definitive evidence of its spread in the Arabian Peninsula, and indicate that it was spread in groups in the north of the Kingdom, and added that the detection provides the current generations with the opportunity to see this organism and find its clear remains.