But due to a lack of data, population trends are unknown, and the species, or subspecies, could vanish before humanity realizes it. ... Wildcat experts urge pet owners to spay their house cats.

Analyses of genomic data suggest that the little-studied Chinese mountain cat, which has held a controversial taxonomic status, is a subspecies of wildcat and was not involved in feline ...

Scientifically, the Afro-Asiatic wildcat is divided into three evolutionarily similar subspecies. The first, F. lybica lybica, occurs in Eastern, Western and Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

The real-life origins of a once-mythological wildcat called the "cat-fox" are finally coming to light thanks to recent genetics research. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

There are only two ways to indisputably identify a wildcat. You can measure the size of its brain — house cats, like other domestic animals, have evolved reductions in the parts of the brain ...

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 ...