Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Walt Disney Studios Helmed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, African Cats is a 2011 documentary film that ...

For decades, scientists believed that domestic cats arrived in Europe alongside early human farmers migrating from Asia. However, groundbreaking genetic research now shows that cats actually spread ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...

Like a toy on a string, the timing of cat domestication has been a moving target. Now researchers have pounced on a new timeline suggesting that tame descendants of African wildcats left the continent ...