"A significant contribution to the puzzle." Earth's tiniest wild cat species captured on camera for the first time: 'Rare and sensitive' first appeared on The Cool Down.

But that's not the only thing interesting about the majesitc animal: Tigers are the largest wild cat species and share nearly all but 4.4% of their DNA with domestic cats.

Bobcats are the most common wild cat species in North America, with a minimum population of between 1.4 and 2.6 million nationwide, according to the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.

Urs Breitenmoser, co-chair of the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group, welcomes the new research on the “understudied cat species.” He believes it will be useful in the ongoing reassessment of the ...

Sand cats rocketed to fame in 2017 when photos of the wee wild cats from a study conducted by Grégory Breton, managing director of Panthera France, took the Internet by storm. Weighing up to just ...

Gold-ringed cat snakes (left), also known as Boiga dendrophila, is a yellow and black snake that's native to Asia. Black jaguars (right), also known as Panthera once, is a wild cat native to South ...

Interestingly, in a poll of zookeepers, these African wildcats still rank as the friendliest among wild cat species today. In the reign of Thutmose III, 3,500 years ago, the city of Bubastis rose ...

Exotic African wild cat on the loose in Decatur, Illinois This Nov. 7, 2017, file photo shows a serval rescued from the streets of Reading, Pa., by the Animal Rescue League of Berks County.

More by Zane Wolf This article was originally published with the title “In a Cat’s Eye” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 332 No. 3 (March 2025), p. 18 ...

Using blood sample from the Utica Zoo's 6-year-old Pallas's cat named Tater, researchers constructed a representative map of genes for the species.

This elusive nature is no doubt one of the reasons sand cats have been so under-reported, says Breton. Although the species was first scientifically recorded in 1858 – after being spotted in the ...