The average lifespan for felines is between 13 and 17 years, with certain aspects playing a role in longevity.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

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

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery about these lovable felines—with answers that could narrow down when cats ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Archaeologists and historians have known for decades that ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, but recent research has proven that the Pharaohs had an even more significant impact on the species than ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled that the feline companions of ancient China were not the domestic cats ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory.

Most cat owners joke that their felines rule over their homes like royalty, but these asides could hold some truth. Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of ...