A small cat with big adaptability You could be forgiven for mistaking an Afro-Asiatic wildcat for a family pet. They’re the size of a large domestic cat (F. catus), but with longer legs.

Fierce, elusive, and barely tamed by time - the Scottish wildcat is the true Highlander of the animal world. In this video, ...

I explored this question in my book " The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa." An African wildcat doesn’t look so different from a domestic cat. (Image credit: Getty Images) ...

Banner image: A domestic cat out in the wild. Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species ...

An African wildcat doesn’t look so different from a domestic cat. pum_eva/iStock via Getty Images Plus Based on its size and appearance, I initially presumed it was someone’s pet inexplicably ...

You are unlikely to have seen one, but wildcats are still clinging on by a claw in Scotland. Most of the cats living in the wild in Scotland are hybrid cats with a mix of wildcat and domestic cat ...

Cats Protection Strathspey is celebrating a major milestone having successfully trapped, neutered, and returned its 100th cat ...

Recently, he has been asking similar questions about domestic cats, investigating where they came from, why they do what they do, and what the future may hold, topics that are explored in "The Cat ...

Clearly, the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people's hearts and homes. How did they do it? I explored this question in my book ...