Have you ever wondered how the domestic cats you see around your home first arrived in Europe? For centuries, historians assumed that these familiar companions spread alongside early farmers thousands ...

For decades, scientists believed that domestic cats arrived in Europe alongside early human farmers migrating from Asia. However, groundbreaking genetic research now shows that cats actually spread ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat domestication and dispersal into Europe and beyond, aside from the common ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cat sits on ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus in present day Izmir, Turkey. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ephesus ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem. Around 2,000 years ago, the Roman military relied on cats to keep rats out ...

If you have ever lived with a cat, you might be familiar with the phrase or the feeling that nobody really owns a cat, they own you. Perhaps that is because scientists consider household cats to only ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...