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

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

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

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

The scientists found that the wildcats lived alongside humans for some 3,500 years—but despite all that time, they were a ...

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