By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...

Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.

Europe may seem an unlikely home for large wild cats, yet its forests, mountains, and islands harbor a variety of felines that have adapted to human presence. Among them is the Iberian lynx, the ...

Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and ...

finding that the Cyprus animal is actually a European wildcat, and not a domesticated cat. This brings the focus back to Egypt as the origin site of cat domestication possibly as recent as 3000 years ...

Now, two yet-to-be peer-reviewed DNA studies debunk this theory, finding that the Cyprus animal is actually a European wildcat ... “We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe ...

Predators (Felidae), hand-colored chromolithograph, published in 1869 Predators (Felidae): a) Leopard (Panthera pardus); b) Cougar (Puma concolor); c) Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx); d) European wildcat ...