A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

When looking at the cat remains that were thought to have arrived to the West about 6,000 years ago, the researchers realized ...

However, because the skeletons of domestic cats are identical to those of wildcats, it’s impossible to tell if these ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

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

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery ...

Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with ...

Most cat owners joke that their felines rule over their homes like royalty, but these asides could hold some truth. Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of ...

Crucially, these findings contradict a long-standing theory that domestication in Europe occurred much earlier – some 6,000 ...