The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae — the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars. It is also the only member of that family that has been ...

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a principal investigator at the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity and Evolution at Peking University in China, tells Live Science’s Sascha Pare. Most domestic cats in China are white or partially ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

Pugsley the cat won the Guinness World Record for longest tail on a domestic cat, living, on March 26, 2025. The Minnesota ...

Murphy, a National Academy of Sciences member and Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, is Texas A&M’s third ...

Around A.D. 600, merchants and diplomats first transported domestic cats in small crates ... mitochondrial genomes that summarize the evolution of cat genetics worldwide. "This is by far the ...