A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Once cats became associated with people, they were moved around the world, prized as ship cats and pest controllers. Cats ...

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

This biomimicry-themed blog post is brought to us by guest blogger Tianyou Xu, a senior at NYU studying physics and jazz. Read on to discover some fascinating physics from a very familiar creature: ...

In March 2023, a message spread on social media with the above-displayed image that supposedly showed "the rarest feline species on Earth." After many Snopes readers asked us to investigate the ...

With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, biologists have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail Conus catus. The researchers identified the snail's hydraulically propelled feeding ...

Food habits of feral cats (Felis catus) were studied on two small uninhabited islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Cat stomach contents, collected on Howland Island in May 1979 and on Jarvis Island ...

A photo of a supposed "Amazon snake cat" has gone viral on social media, and it has stirred a debate among people who are weighing in on whether they think the image is real or fake. The photo, which ...

Residents of Sarnia, Ont., have recently gotten a taste of something Torontonians experienced last winter. A coyote snatched a pet cat from a porch in the Southwestern Ontario city in broad daylight ...