The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed small wildcat, but it’s also one of the least ...

Small wildcat species suffer from habitat loss, hunting and human conflicts, just like better-known big cats. But some small wildcat populations also face threats from other felines: hybridization.

Paleogeneticists, it turns out, find the small wildcat just as elusive as field biologists. Compared with other domesticated ...

But not our feline companions. Every domestic cat — the lovable fur babies of the pet world — is descended from the African wildcat, a species so similar to our household pets that if you saw ...

Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and most famously the wolf, there remains a vanishingly small ...

Nepal is wildcat central, home to 12 feline species — and a new discovery could raise that number to 13. Camera trapping last year for a tiger census captured an image of what researchers ...

A rare ocelot has been captured on camera in southern Arizona, marking the first sighting of the endangered species in the area in 50 years. | Elaine Thompson 31,039 people played the daily ...

“In the UK, we’ve lost a lot of our carnivore species and if we allow the wildcat to go extinct, it would be a really sad indictment of where we’ve got to ecologically,” she says. Wildcats ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials proposed a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx on Friday in a bid to help the snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in ...

Conservationists have said the birth of wildcat kittens at a Kent wildlife park has sparked fresh hopes for the survival of Britain's rarest mammal species. The litter was born nine weeks ago at ...

Photo from Martin Boone via the French Office for Biodiversity By 2019, encouraged by their findings, wildlife officials proposed the idea the Corsican cat-fox was a new species of wildcat ...