Cats can come in all shapes and sizes. But what is the smallest cat in the world? Here is what you need to know about the tiniest felines.

The sighting of rusty-spotted cats ( Prionailurus rubiginosus ), considered one of the world’s smallest wild cat species, in ...

A baby rusty-spotted cat, born at a French zoo in 2010. The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same genus as modern rusty-spotted cats, which are among the smallest felines in the ...

It was comparable in size with the smallest cats living today, such as the rusty-spotted cat (left). (Image credit: slowmotiongli/Getty Images/Jiangzuo et al/Annales Zoologici Fennici, 2024) ...