Long before the familiar lions and cheetahs roamed the open savannas, there was a cat whose world looked very different.

Imagine a world where giant cats roamed, their bodies sheathed in natural armor. These ancient felines were not just agile hunters—they were walking fortresses, sporting bone plates and reinforced ...

Big cats fit in that early place in the evolution of living cats, and continued fossil discoveries will no doubt enlighten us to the history of the earliest of feline predators.

The Big Dogs were an unsuccessful experiment. This is what happened to the prehistoric “Big Dogs”. They may have gotten away with it, too if only it wasn’t for those darn cats!

Scientists have discovered a new prehistoric cat species that lived in modern-day Spain about 15.5 million years ago, shedding more light on the diversity of felines during this period.

Big cat fossils are very rare, and the oldest ones were just 3.8 million years old and came from Africa. But when geneticists compared the DNA of modern big cats, they shifted the group’s ...

Big predator cats can still be found in grasslands today, though they remain threatened by yet another moment of changing climate. "We don't know exactly what drove hyaenodonts to extinction, but ...

The teeth and jaw of the cat were missing, but Widga knew it was a big cat right away. "It’s such an incredible find," Ackerman said.

Recently analyzed fossils finally confirm a longtime paleontological theory: Flying squirrels the size of domesticated cats glided across the Bering Land Bridge roughly 5 million years ago ...

Researchers at Iowa State University say a fossilized skull found recently in southwest Iowa offers evidence that prehistoric sabertooth cats may have roamed the area. ISU associate professor of ...

Prehistoric world's missing big cats revealed in fossil finds The discovery of a nearly complete skull of the new fossilised big cat came as a surprise. Our team of Chinese and American ...

Big predator cats can still be found in grasslands today, though they remain threatened by yet another moment of changing climate.