By Sean Mowbray For the briefest moment earlier this year, the Eurasian lynx — extinct in the U.K. for thousands of years — returned to the wild in Scotland. But this release wasn’t ...

That’s not the case for most of the lynx’s relatives. Of the world’s 38 wildcat species, 31 are considered small cats. Ranging in size from the three-pound rusty-spotted cat to the 50-pound ...

That release comes amid long-running discussions of a possible reintroduction of this wildcat to the United Kingdom. Conservationists are working to reintroduce small cats across the globe.