Two cats have melted hearts across the internet after a video showing their enthusiastic greeting for their owner went viral on TikTok. Shared by owner Djoy Boer (@djoyboer) the clip—which has already ...

Domestic cats have shared our homes for millennia, but their origins remain mysterious. Two recent studies propose a new lead regarding their domestication. Researchers already knew that domestic cats ...

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed small wildcat, but it’s also one of the least studied. The cat’s conservation status is listed as “of least concern” by ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...

The domestic cat, a small carnivorous mammal, has woven its way into human history and hearts with a subtlety and grace characteristic of its species. Felis catus, as it is scientifically known, ...

Magerifelis peignei is estimated to have a body mass of 7.61 kg The new cat species identified as Magerifelis peignei, lived in what is currently Spain approximately 15.5 million years ago during the ...

In a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, researchers are about to see what happens when cats go wild. In June, the first captive-bred European wildcats (Felis silvestris) fitted with GPS-tracking ...

The larynx, or ‘voice box,’ of domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) can produce purring-like sounds without neural input, according to new research led by the University of Vienna. Cats are vocal ...

New reports state that Scottish Wildcats, our last native feline population found only in Scotland, are “on the brink of extinction with most wild-living cats now hybrids”. Sign up to our Scotsman ...

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