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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The variant has not been found in other animals, including the wild cats that gave rise to domestic cats. “It’s a genetic exception that was noticed over a hundred years ago,” Kaelin said in ...

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 ...

As scientists explore the genetics of domestic cats, it not only has the potential to reveal more about the health of our beloved pets but also to help us understand better the interplay between ...