Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had ...

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

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 ...

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

The scientists found that the wildcats lived alongside humans for some 3,500 years—but despite all that time, they were a ...

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 ...

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

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

Three generations of women, on three continents, who never knew they were related have been brought together following a DNA ...