Scientists in China just found something amazing. It's the world's smallest cat fossil found in China, and it belongs to a brand-new species of extinct leopard cat. This tiny cat was so small, it could fit right in your hand.
Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in eastern China, identified as an extinct species of leopard cat, and this amazing feline was so petite that it could comfortably fit in the palm of anyone’s hand. So how small is that, really? The ancient kitten's size was comparable to that of the smallest existing feline species, that is the rusty-spotted cat and black-footed cat which is much smaller than the modern leopard cat. Those two cats are already the tiniest on Earth today, which gives you a good idea of just how small this ancient cat truly was.
