It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...

Humans were living alongside leopard cats in settlements in ancient China more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived, new research shows. The findings reveal that people in the region had an ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

(CNN) — The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings ...