Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

The smallest cat in the world was discovered deep in a cave, where early humans also lived. Scientists described the animal as a new species Prionailurus kurteni in a study published in the journal ...

Archaeologists have found the smallest cat species ever to roam the Earth. Discovered in a cave in China, it would have fit ...

The palm-sized animal was uncovered in Hualongdong cave, where scientists are studying the humans who lived there 30,000 years ago.

It likely belongs to an extinct leopard cat species. This tiny feline likely lived alongside a family of 20 humans around 30,000 years ago. The researchers described the leopard cat as being so ...

Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A baby rusty-spotted cat ...

The species may already be locally extinct in regions of Indonesia. Experts also believe Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, once a home for fishing cats, can no longer support their kind owing to lack of ...

New genetic research indicates that hybridization with domestic cats is putting the Scottish wildcat at serious risk of extinction. A 2023 study that analyzed whole genomes of modern, museum and ...