Meet the Saharan sand cat. It looks like a permanent kitten at about half the size of a domesticated cat with pale grey fur meant to camouflage it in the desert. It has a "soft disposition," never ...

It was 2 a.m. in the Moroccan Sahara, and I was heading back to camp after seven hours of driving through sand, dust, and prickly vegetation on my fifth and final expedition to document sand cats.

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 ...

Back in April, conservation group Panthera discovered a group of six-to-eight-week-old sand cat kittens hiding out in the Moroccan Sahara Desert. It took the team four years to catch a glimpse of ...

Previous studies suggested that sand cats move across an area of up to 50 square kilometers (19 square miles), but Breton’s team showed their range to be far bigger – with one sand cat ...

In 2002, the IUCN listed the sand cat as "near threatened," but the distinction was changed to "least concern" in 2016 and remains so as of 2020. 3 However, that doesn't mean the species' threats ...