Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species known to science by just a few photos until the late 1990s. And it took Juan ...

The Iberian lynx could be the first big cat species to become extinct in 10,000 years unless the European Union and Spain take drastic action. Gland, Switzerland – The Iberian lynx could be the first ...

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, born ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — America’s oldest zoo has welcomed two new endangered big cats to help prevent their extinction. Rory, a female Amur tiger, joined the Philadelphia Zoo tiger habitat. She was born ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the 30,000-year-old fossilized remains of what may be the smallest cat ever known to have existed. The fossilized lower jaw fragment was unearthed within the Hualongdong ...

When one company proclaimed it had brought back the dire wolf, the response was joyous. But de-extinction remains a dangerous fantasy. By Brooke Jarvis Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for the ...

A baby rusty-spotted cat, born at a French zoo in 2010. 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 ...