How did they figure out that ‘big cats’ (lions, tigers, leopards, etc.) were actually related to normal-sized cats?

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DNA testing is relatively new so I assume it wasn’t that. Did some scientists just go out into the wild and observe lions behaving like cats and think to themselves “I bet they’re related!”, or did they have some other way of figuring it out?

**EDIT:** By the sounds of things they just looked at them and guessed. Luckily they guessed right! Can you imagine if we’d spent all this time calling them ‘big cats’ only to have DNA evidence prove that they’re completely unrelated? 😂

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It is based on type of species they are, and the same type of species they are that fall into a category like how multiple different animal species be determined on the same mammal, amphibious or reptile they are
Because they figured it out by doing a digging research and confirmation if they really are such as DNA testing, observation of behaviour, and anatomy too, and found out that they all the same, just jave different habits, lifestyles, even has mixed Dna, behaviours, difference from appearance and have different traits, skills and abilities, size, its muscles etc.

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