Prionailurus kurteni was discovered from a fragment of jaw bone in Hualongdong Cave and is believed to be between 275,000 and ...

Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia ...

What are big cats anyway? They are the lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard in the Panthera genus, the cheetah, ...

Safari park animal keepers have carried out a new year count of all their animals, from the tallest giraffes to colonies of ...

There are 40 cat species — not even taking into consideration the various breeds of domesticated cats, which is over 70,— ...

Weighing in at an incredible 26kg, Frankie is as heavy as a small adult deer, and his owner, Danielle Myers, believes he could be the biggest French bulldog in the world. The five-year-old pooch ...

The Bee Hummingbird is native to Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. It weighs only 1.5 grams and is slightly smaller than the Bee Hummingbird.

The tallest mountains in the world are fairly well known but the smallest ones are less so. Whilst many are able to name Everest as the tallest mountain in the world and others can point to iconic ...

Did you know there is a smallest country in the world that can be easily walked across in a few minutes? It’s even smaller than some of the world’s biggest airports? That country is Vatican City.

But why go to any island when you can visit one of the smallest in the world? There are teeny, tiny specks of land offering seclusion from the crowds. From lush isles barely big enough for you and ...

Researchers at Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies in Kochi have examined the world’s smallest pufferfish’s habits in captivity and its embryonic development. They discovered that the ...

And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among the hundreds of previously unknown species of animals, plants and fungi that scientists named and ...