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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae — the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars. It is also the only member of that family that has been domesticated ...

Even though cats were domesticated relatively recently, their relationship with us has already changed them in surprising ways. Sphinx catCats kept as pets, like this sphinx cat, likely will change ...

A leopard cat, which is under second-class state protection in China, is seen in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on ...

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