The largely tree-dwelling species hunts rodents and insects and is the third smallest wild cat in Asia. A very shy and ...

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

The world’s smallest wild cat is found only in India and Sri Lanka ... where the majority of the species have been found.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline called Prionailurus kurteni was an extinct species of leopard cat. It was small enough to fit in the palm of one’s hand.

Bengal has discovered the world's smallest and lightest wild cat, the rusty-spotted cat, in its Purulia district. This species, considered near threatened on the IUCN Red List, was spotted for the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest cat species ever to roam the Earth. They found a lower jaw and two teeth from a palm-sized feline in the Hualongdong Cave, China. The researchers believe ...

This story features photos from the National Geographic Photo Ark. Buy Photo Ark books and merchandise here. This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Black-footed cats are the smallest species of wild cat, weighing between 3 and 5 pounds. They live in southern Africa, and are both solitary and strictly nocturnal. The cats can kill as many as 14 ...

Hybridisation with domestic cats is one of the major threats to this species' survival. There are programmes in progress to survey their populations, such as by Scottish Wildcat Action. Pallas's cats ...