Once cats became associated with people, they were moved around the world, prized as ship cats and pest controllers. Cats only reached Europe around 2,000 years ago, much later than previously thought ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
When Did Domestic Cats Take Over the World? New Research Suggests They Arrived in Europe and China Centuries Later Than We Thought
Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road, and that they ...
New Scientist on MSN
Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis
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 modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.
A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...
Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across west Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well -- surprisingly, given the ...
New research using ancient DNA is challenging traditional narratives about the origins of domestic cats, shedding light on their murky past.
It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...
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