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

A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

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

Crucially, these findings contradict a long-standing theory that domestication in Europe occurred much earlier – some 6,000 ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time. Despite its proximity to other groups of ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it ...