A large team of life scientists at China's Shaanxi Normal University, working with colleagues from several other institutions in China, one in the U.K. and two in the U.S., has found evidence that the black-footed cat may be in danger of extinction due to loss of habitat. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group obtained tissue samples from 10 of the cats and conducted genomic sequencing to learn about their recent breeding history.