The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

A leopard cat, which is under second-class state protection in China, is seen in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on ...

New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

The presence of the big cats came to light after CCTV footage showed them attacking dogs, goats and chickens in the vicinity.

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Pune: Two adult leopards are sharing a 250sqm enclosure at the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre, an arrangement that the Junnar ...

Cats have been on quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. A pair of new studies published on Thursday show that the road to cat domestication was far ...

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 ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled that the feline companions of ancient China were not the domestic cats ...