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The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

A groundbreaking study has overturned long-held beliefs about the domestication of cats. New DNA evidence shows that domestic ...

Rex lived closer in time to modern day humans than it did to a single Stegosaurus. This one always blows my mind." ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

A new study finds that domestic cats originated from North African wildcats and reached Europe far more recently than previously thought.

When the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD, they introduced a host of innovations, including roads. Now, scientists say we have something else to thank the Romans for: pet cats.