A brand new species of cat has been found in a fossil from a cave in China. Reportedly small enough to have fit in the palm ...

Scientists in China have uncovered a fossilized jaw fragment of a newly identified, extinct cat species that was so small it ...

Chinese researchers have found the remains of a feline that could fit in the palm of a hand. The smallest cat in the world ...

the smallest living wild cat species are the black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) and the rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus), which are about 13.7 to 20.4 inches (35 to 52 cm) and 13.7 to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest known cat fossil at a site inhabited by archaic humans in eastern China. This diminutive feline, which has been identified as an extinct species of leopard ...

Its size was comparable to that of the smallest existing feline species: the rusty-spotted cat and the black-footed cat. Preserving fossils in the forest habitats where leopard cats lived was ...

Its size rivals that of the smallest modern cats, such as the black-footed cat or the rusty-spotted cat. The Prionailurus kurteni is an extinct species of leopard cat, much smaller than modern ...

Rusty spotted cats (Prionailurus rubiginosus) live in Sri Lanka. This miniature predator, is the world’s smallest cat… weighing little more than a kilo, 200 times lighter than a lion.

They said the animal was much smaller than modern leopard cats. Instead, it was comparable in size to the rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) of South Asia and Felis nigripes, commonly ...

Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A baby rusty-spotted cat ...

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.