By 2,900 years ago the domestic cat had become the official deity of Egypt in the form of the goddess Bastet, and house cats were sacrificed, mummified and buried in great numbers at Bastet’s ...

To get the cat DNA, Lyons and her colleagues swabbed the cheeks of cats and analyzed donated blood and gonad samples from neuter clinics, including four African wildcats and 10 hybrids of domestic ...

The first appearance of domestic cats in Ancient Egypt was painted around 1950 BCE. Throughout the centuries that followed, cats became a permanent fixture in Egyptian art. Some were even deified ...

WHEN EXAMINING a cat’s behavior, behaviorists rely on ethology, the study of animal behavior that emphasizes behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments. I think of it as looking at ...

New secrets about cat evolution revealed Date: November 2, 2023 Source: Texas A&M University Summary: By comparing genomes of several cat species, the project has helped researchers understand why ...

Domestic cats are on the small end of the feline size spectrum. Larger predators can kill larger prey; with most larger predators gone, domestic cats will seize the opportunity to get bigger.

Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of Cat Skulls: Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Morphological Diversity. PLoS ONE , 2012; 7 (7): e39752 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039752 Cite This Page : ...

It's known that cats usually don't meow for each other but instead for us as a tactic developed through adaptation and evolution. A new study, however, has shed more light on how domesticated cats ...

Skulls shed new light on the evolution of the cat. by University of Bristol. Fossil skull and lower jaws of a sabre-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, from the ...