A brand new species of cat has been found in a fossil from a cave in China. Reportedly small enough to have fit in the palm ...

Scientists in China have uncovered a fossilized jaw fragment of a newly identified, extinct cat species that was so small it ...

i. Decrease in number of bones comprising lower jaw In mammal, dentary is single bone on each side of the lower jaw. ii. With loss of bones, switch to bones articulating hinge between upper and lower ...

From the jaw fragment, which includes two surviving ... Because early leopard cats had small, fragile bones and mostly lived in habitats that were conducive to rapid bone degradation, their ...

The team discovered that: unerupted teeth hidden within the jaw bone suggested the cat was a kitten of less than five months old. Separation of its vertebrae indicated it had possibly been ...