How did cats become domesticated?

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Georgina’s cat had begun acting strangely – was she trying to tell her something?

Can we really bring back long-extinct animals, or are scientists just making close copies?

Meet the incredible people saving big cats in rainforests.