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 ...

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 ...

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

Two people have been arrested by Spanish police in Mallorca after an operation to sell exotic felines like tigers, pumas and ...

“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write. Instead, scientists suspect that domesticated forms of wildcats were first ...

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Second only to dust mites, the humble domestic house cat is one of the major causes of indoor allergens for people. But what is the actual source of the allergic response? And are certain breeds ...

A Killingly man faces domestic violence charges for allegedly killing a house cat and stabbing a woman multiple times following what was described by someone close to him as a downward spiral.

the former director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (who co-authored the abovementioned 2013 study with Tom Will of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), assert that domestic cats have ...