The USFishandWildlife Service declaredthe easterncougarofficiallyextinctWednesday, even thoughthebigcat is believed to have first disappearedin the 1930s.
Amongst the remains were the identification documents of several Muslim civilians who disappeared from the eastern town of Rogatica in June of 1992, when the town near the pit, Paklenik, fell to the Serbs.