It would be fascinating to know whether domestic cats interbred with European wildcats, but the decline of native wildcat populations across Europe, and the lack of ancient cat genomes has made it ...

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed small wildcat, but it’s also one of the least ...

Every domestic cat — the lovable fur babies of the pet ... In contrast, despite the most tender attention, their close relative the European wildcat grows up to be hellaciously mean.

But “our results do not support a Neolithic origin for domestic cats,” Doherty’s team writes. Their work shows that the animal in Cyprus may have been a European wildcat brought over from ...

Paleogeneticists, it turns out, find the small wildcat just as elusive as field biologists. Compared with other domesticated ...

In other European countries, analyses find that interbreeding with domestic felines affects anywhere from 3-21% of wildcat populations. But in Scotland, all of the wild-living cats in study ...

The shelter, located in Bergheim, about 25 miles from Cologne, immediately identified it as a European wildcat, which is the size of a large domestic cat and a protected species native to the area.

the European wildcat, the Central Asian wildcat, the southern African wildcat, and the Chinese desert cat. The sampling of feline genes revealed that the Near Eastern wildcat and domestic cats ...

The team speculates that dwindling wildcat populations may have offered less chance of finding a mate, causing them to turn to domestic cats instead. It may have also offered wildcats some ...

The results of the studies demonstrate that, since their introduction, domestic cats and European wildcats generally avoided ... This may have happened as a result of dwindling wildcat populations and ...