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

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 ...

Research has shown that this self-classification is linked to personality traits, with cat people often being more ...

With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes ...

In ancient Egypt, mass cult ritual sacrifices of cats gave rise to the furry felines becoming human companions, according to ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...