When looking at the cat remains that were thought to have arrived to the West about 6,000 years ago, the researchers realized they were looking at European wild cats, not domesticated cats, which ...

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Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road, and that they ...

Throughout history, felines have had a rather wild and intriguing journey. While one cat species has become domesticated, many others remain wild. Some have become extinct over time, while some ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier ...

Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats ...

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An unrelated species of small cat lived in human settlements thousands of years before domestic cats, say scientists.

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...