Cat Ancestors
These little (big) guys are the oldest living relative of modern day cats. The Pallas’s Cat is the oldest living species of a clade of felids that includes the modern genus Felis. This feline, along with the extinct Martelli’s Cat, was probably one of the first two modern cats to evolve from Pseudaelurus approximately 12 million years ago.
12 million years ago! Wikipedia
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And they still look like little b*stards.
Wow!
They’re ADORABLE!
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They’re not exactly “oldest”, as far as I know. They’re more properly the farthest relative of “most cats” that is still a cat, not a civet, a mongoose or whatever. But while their lineage was the earliest to depart from the rest of the extant cats, that does not mean that it stood evolutionarily still, that they “are the same” they “were” back then. It’s possible, however, that they indeed retained more ancestral traits than other cat species, but that’s not a necessary implication of being the earliest split on a set of clades.
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amazing. are they endangered? being bred?
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WOW!!! their adorable!! are there still hundreds of them (i do not mean to tease cats)?