Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and most famously the wolf, there remains a vanishingly small population of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildcats are built for power, focus, and instinct, and in theory, they’re a scary animal from nature. But when you look at them, ...

Despite living alongside house cats for more than 2,000 years, Scottish wildcats ignored the felines as potential breeding partners for centuries. But in just the last 70 or so years, the two groups ...

You’d be forgiven for mistaking a European wildcat for a regular domestic tabby. They are around the same size, and the two ...

A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kittens may look soft and too fluffy and not even close to intimidating, but when playtime comes around, they flip a switch ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Scotland is home to a least a hundred ...

Critically endangered wildcat kittens have been caught on camera for the first time. The four Scottish wildcat kittens have been born at the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre, ...

This lovely little kitten with a head that looks just slightly too big for its face is a Scottish wildcat, a very rare type of wildcat that has dwindled to about 400 individuals living in Britain, ...

Domestic cats introduced from the Near East, and wildcats native to Europe did not mix until the 1960s, despite being exposed to each other for 2,000 years, according to two recent articles. Domestic ...

For cats in the Cairngorms there is some good news and some arguably less good news. For Scottish wildcats, a species that has been on the brink of extinction, these may turn out to be the best of ...