When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The never before seen species Prionailurus kurteni is based on fossils (right) found in a cave in ...

Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) are the smallest and also one of the rarest wildcat species in Africa. They’re very reclusive, extremely hard to find, and are among the least-studied nocturnal ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in eastern China. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline ...

The tiny black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is one of Africa’s rarest cats, only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total population size of fewer than 10,000 individuals. The ...

It may appear to be an unusually small, inquisitive little house tabby — but the black-footed cat is known as the deadliest feline in existence, rampaging across desert and savanna ecosystems and ...

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, born ...

When I was in elementary school, my music teacher used to tell me that “dynamite comes in small packages” as a way to make me feel better about the fact that I was really short. It didn’t help, though ...

Chinese scientists have found the fossilised remains of what could be the smallest cat ever discovered – in the same cave where a family of 20 people lived around 30,000 years ago. The lower jaw ...

Standing just 8 to 10 inches tall, the African black-footed cat resembles a petite version of your average neighborhood tabby. But though the speckled feline is unequivocally adorable, a vicious, ...