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, ...

Now, to identify genome alterations that led to cat domestication, Warren and colleagues compared Cinnamon’s genome with the genome assemblies of 22 purebreds from six other domestic cat breeds ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators have uncovered new information about the history of cat evolution ...

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 ...

This topic was on my mind as I reviewed the immense amount of scientific research on Felis catus – the domestic cat – for my new book, The Age of Cats: from the Savanna to Your Sofa. Even though ...

From RTÉ Radio 1's Ray D'Arcy Show, Roisin Foran from Just Cats Vets on the annual cat name survey. Clearly, the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to ...

The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.

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