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Cats create "mental maps" using audio cues, scientists have discovered. This enables cats to spatially orient unseen companions, an ability that was previously unknown in felines.

Cats may be able to remember the names of cohabitating cats — but it depends where they live, new research suggests.

Cats that have an extreme response to catnip may look like they're experiencing euphoria.

Here's why cats 'play' with their prey before dealing the death blow.

Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct for nearly 100 years. But scientists say gene-editing technology could bring back this lost species.

Observations of elusive creature in the wild could aid conservation efforts.

A new study of bones from the Grand Canyon reveals that this steep, rocky landscape was once a hunting ground for the extinct American cheetah.

Here's the science behind the so-called "cat gap," a roughly 7 million-long period in North America in which there aren't any known cat fossils.