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

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 ...

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

Instead, it was comparable in size to the rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) of South Asia and Felis nigripes, commonly known as the black-footed cat, found in Africa. These are two of ...

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Along with the tiny-but-deadly black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) in Africa, these are the smallest cats that exist anywhere on Earth today. But the prehistoric feline’s size would have been akin ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in eastern China. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline ...