The book 'Cats,' forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys felines in a wide range of art forms throughout the millennia.

For statues of brown cats, lines in scorched colors created with a wood-burning pen are sufficient to depict their fur.

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...

If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox.

A new study by researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the University of Naples Federico II shows a domestic cat's purr reveals far more about its individual identity than its meow.

A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt. When you ...

This video compares the strengths and weaknesses of the sabertooth cat and the raptor to determine which predator would win in a hypothetical fight. Experts analyze biting power, agility, hunting ...

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 ...

A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability. Saber teeth in predators evolved many times. Did it lead to their extinction? In ...

In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, ...