Bengal has discovered the world's smallest and lightest wild cat, the rusty-spotted cat, in its Purulia district. This ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have found the smallest cat species ever to roam the Earth. Discovered in a cave in China, it would have fit ...

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the feline called Prionailurus kurteni was an extinct species of leopard cat. It was small enough to fit in the palm of one’s hand.

Here’s how it works. Researchers in China have found the remains of a cat that was so small it could have nestled in the palm of your hand. The fossils were discovered deep within a cave where ...

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Chinese researchers have found the remains of a feline that could fit in the palm of a hand. The smallest cat in the world was discovered deep in a cave, where early humans also lived. Scientists ...

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 world. Catherine Gugelmann / AFP via Getty Images ...

Chinese scientists have found the fossilised remains of what could be the smallest cat ever discovered – in the same cave where a family of 20 people lived around 30,000 years ago. The lower jaw ...

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