Pet owners have long joked that their dogs and cats are starting to look alike, but new research suggests that convergence is ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

Maine Coons are the largest domestic cat breed in the world. Discover how this majestic and mysterious breed came to be.

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

3,500 years ago, cats started showing up in Egyptian paintings on tomb walls and in sculptures and carvings. Not only were they abundant in these representations, but it was very clear that they were ...

The field of feline genomics has evolved rapidly over recent years, transforming our understanding of domestic cat breed diversity, evolutionary history and disease mechanisms. Advanced sequencing ...