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

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

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

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

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

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Maine Coons are the largest domestic cat breed in the world. Discover how this majestic and mysterious breed came to be.

In the United States, cats are the most popular house pet, with about 90 million domesticated cats slinking around 34 percent of U.S. homes. Wikipedia On any of the surprising number of Web sites ...

You recall that I recently floated the theory that cats have been neglected and maligned by history. I suggested that there were dark reasons for that neglect, that disrespect. I quoted things. It was ...

Today is Independence Day, when Americans celebrate their evolution from subjects of the British Crown (“Cheers”) to freedom-loving, independent Americans (“Yo”). And as you ponder today about how we ...