Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt with help from ...

“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write. Instead, scientists suspect that domesticated forms of wildcats were first ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

For centuries, cats have allured humans to get what they want – and in ancient Egypt, they even sat alongside the Pharaohs as ...

Ancient Egypt is well known to have been the cradle of human civilisation where feline domestication and worship were prevalent. Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess ...

Dr. Lyons and her team compared the extracted DNA from these late royal cats, mummified with their pharaoh ... to be royal descendants of ancient Egyptian cats among the domestic felines pawing ...

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...