Ancient DNA from fossils found in Wyoming and Canada's Yukon Territory suggests the wild cat more closely resembled modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: AKKHARAT JARUSILAWONG / Shutterstock. It's easy to look at a housecat napping in a sunbeam and forget its wild ...

The endangered flat-headed cat, once considered "possibly extinct," was recently rediscovered in Southern Thailand for the first time in three decades. Called "one of the world's rarest wild felines," ...

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study ...

This is where the American cheetah comes in. It was suggested that, perhaps, the pronghorn evolved alongside the big cat, ...

The Ice Age cat looked like a cheetah but DNA, Arctic fossils and isotopes reveal an adaptable puma relative with an unusual diet.

Conservationists in Thailand are celebrating a surprising discovery. On Dec. 25, Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, announced that the endangered flat-headed cat has returned to ...

In a new study released Friday, scientists say DNA extracted from the bones of a prehistoric "American cheetah" found in ...

For about 30 years now, a flat-headed cat in Thailand has been the ultimate Schrödinger’s cat: it simultaneously existed and did not exist. Its habitat had been largely wiped out, and along with it, ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

A baby rusty-spotted cat, born at a French zoo in 2010. The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same genus as modern rusty-spotted cats, which are among the smallest felines in the ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...