Ligers and Tigons, Oh My! Cat Lineage Littered with Interbreeding

Friday, January 15, 2016 - 08:51 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Modern-day felines may be the ultimate mutts. Turns out, the ancestors of modern-day cats, from lynxes to the domestic Fluffy, interbred across species at many points in history, a new analysis of the feline family tree suggests.

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