Inbreeding with domestic cats has become a serious threat to Afro-Asiatic wildcat conservation. Wildcat experts urge pet ...

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

Inbreeding with domestic cats has become a serious threat to ... lybica turned out to be those of the European wildcat. So, while wildcats were indeed taken to Cyprus, Ottoni explains, this ...

In true feline form, cats took their time deciding whether to jump into humans’ laps. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, DNA analysis suggests that cats lived for ...

As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck. The Emanuel Point II met its demise around 1559 ...

Tottenham have won 10 of their 15 Europa League games this season, only one fewer than they have won in 37 Premier League matches in 2024-25. They have now also beaten Manchester United four times ...

The researchers investigated whether cats are able to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans based on smell alone. They tested thirty domestic cats by presenting them with plastic ...

That's not the case anymore. In many ways, that's a good thing, since not only do domestic cats kill wild birds in the neighborhood, (estimates range from 1 to 4 billion birds and maybe as many as ...

Cats have a long history with humans, going back more than 9,000 years. Attracted to human settlements by the rodents that plagued (sometimes literally) our ancestors, cats ingratiated themselves ...