"Vladimir" Excerpted from Adventure Cats by Laura J Moss (Workman Publishing). Copyright © 2017 My three-year-old cat spends most of her time lounging by the window ...
Felines first cozied up to humans in the Middle East at least 9,500 years ago, not in Egypt as commonly thought, an international team of researchers reported Thursday. The finding, in the current ...
The cat kept his promise, and the ceramic figurines quickly became very popular, saving the old woman from poverty. In the same year, pre-eminent printmaker Hiroshige Utagawa illustrated the cats ...
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 shake up ...
The origin of domestic cats began millions of years ago. About 50 million years ago weasel-like animals called the Miacis is believed to be the ancestor of cats. About 40 million years ago, the ...
When the first drops of whiskey were distilled in medieval Ireland, a silent helper stood nearby. Furred, four-legged, and always ready to deal with unwelcome mice, the cat thus began its long ...