Gaia, a deadly black-footed cat, was born in Glen Rose, Texas in October 2023. She has been brought to Utah's Hogle Zoo for breeding purposes.

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 ...

The zoo took in Gaia upon a breeding recommendation from the Black-Footed Cat Consortium. The Hogle Zoo is home to a male black-footed cat named Ryder that they plan to introduce to Gaia in the ...

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 ...

Related: 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia Today, the smallest living wild cat species are the black-footed cat (Felis nigripes ...

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 ...

The animal was similar in size to the smallest of its modern relatives, the black-footed cat. The newly discovered fossil species was named Prionailurus kurteni. Scientists suggest that food ...