WASHINGTON — Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild ...

Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that ...

WASHINGTON – Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild ...

fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica,'' a Middle Eastern wildcat. Felis silvestris lybica has some key similarities to the 9,5000 year-old cat skeleton ...

This undated photo provided by the journal Science shows the wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, which was trapped in Israel as part of the author's research into the origin of cat domestication. Cats ...

The sequencing of the domestic cat’s genome continues to shed light on how domestication may have come about. Earlier this year, a mainly Russian research team, guided by veteran molecular biologist ...

To my mind, there’s no excuse for cats. They’re animal hipsters — preening, demanding and terribly full of themselves. Plus they make me sneeze. Yes, they catch mice, but that’s why we invented the ...