What if the most beautiful creatures on Earth were also the most mysterious—and nearly invisible? Rare big cats live in the ...

The Felidae family, or wild cats, were some of the deadliest predators of prehistory, and many of these cats dwarfed the size and power of today's big cats, like tigers ... look at the top 10 most ...

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights into their family tree.

Sleek and solitary, the jaguarundi is roughly the size of a large house cat, typically weighing between 8 and 16 pounds and growing up to 30 inches long. Their coats are solid-colored—either ...

Dr. Marker has spent over 50 years studying cheetahs and trying to help keep the endangered cats from going extinct.

It’s the poaching that’s making the lions go extinct.” Confiscated leopard and lion skins are displayed at Senegal’s Direction of National Parks headquarters in Tambacounda, Senegal on ...

The Florida subspecies nearly went extinct due to hunting and ongoing habitat loss. By 1995, the population had dropped to 20 to 30 wild cats, according to the National Park Service.

TAMPA, Fla. — As Joe Exotic hopes for a pardon from President-elect Trump, his "Tiger King" adversary is kicking off a new chapter. Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue, which has rehabilitated ...