The 7- to 9-week-old cubs were seen without their mother on March 6 in the U.P. They were hunted out of existence in the state in the early 1900s.

The 7- to 9-week-old cubs were found on private land in Ontonagon County in the western Upper Peninsula. A local residents photographed them.

Exciting news — researchers have discovered cougar cubs living wild in Michigan for the first time in over a century. On Wednesday, state biologists confirmed the existence of two cougar cubs.