An Illustrated Feline Family Tree That Shows the Relationship Between Wild and Domestic Cats

The Many Kinds of Cats, Both Wild and Domesticated

A few months ago, MinuteEarth gave us a video about all the different kinds of dogs, and as you would expect, they were inundated with requests to do the same for cats. So we get the whole feline family tree, going back the Proailurus, the first cat, which lived around 30 million years ago. From Proailurus, we got all the other cats, from extinct saber-toothed tigers to exotic big cats to domestic kitties. The cats that still live in the wild co…

An Illustrated Feline Family Tree That Shows the Relationship Between Wild and Domestic Cats

David Goldenberg of MinuteEarth, who previously explained a detailed illustration of the canine family tree, happily informed viewers that a feline version of the poser is available for those who want to trace the family tree of cats. This version begins with the prehistoric roots of the saber-toothed tiger and explores the rest of the relatives from both the wild and domestic sides of the family. We’ve made the definitive feline family tree, f…