The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.

Archaeologists found the tiniest known cat fossil, identified as an extinct species of leopard cat, at an ancient human site approximately 300,000 years old in east China's Anhui Province ...

In large cities merchants sell clothing and gloves made from the skins of small cats. In the 1980s China exported the skins of hundreds of thousands of leopard cats, a species that ranges ...

Researchers have previously found leopard cat bones dating to 5,400 years ago in an ancient farming village in the ... "This is by far the largest and most comprehensive study on small felids living ...

The area of the Masai Mara called Leopard Gorge is well named ... At 59kg on average, leopards are the smallest of the big cats within the genus Panthera (which includes lions, tigers and jaguars ...

Upon investigating, he saw a small animal moving slowly. Initially, Tsao thought it was a stray cat with an injured hind leg. However, when he approached, the animal let out a loud sound, leading him ...

Above image: Botswanan willdife cinematographer Brad Bestelink is a leopard specialist who has been following big cats in the Okavango Delta for 25 years. As part of Big Cats 24/7, I was tasked ...

There’s a leopard on the loose in Hangzhou – and it’s understandably causing panic. The creature escaped from a safari park with two fellow big cats, sparking a frenzy among web-users who ...