Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Asia’s mainland leopard cat is easy to overlook. It’s small, ...

Scientists in China just found something amazing. It's the world's smallest cat fossil found in China, and it belongs to a ...

In 2017, while hiking in the mountains of northern Beijing’s Yanqing District, I came across animal scat along the trail. After nearly two decades studying cats, I recognized it immediately. The ...

The snow leopard is more closely related to the tiger than to the ‘common’ leopard. But whereas the latter is a highly ...