Paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have found and examined the fossilized remains of two subadult and one adult...
Archaeologists with the Nazca-Palpa Management Plan of Peru’s Ministry of Culture have discovered a 2,100-year-old figure of a relaxing feline in the...
A team of scientists from the University of Exeter has surveyed 56 cat owners, some from rural parts of the UK (mostly in south-west England) and some...
An analysis and structural modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the area of the virus that facilitates entry into a cell, reveals a unique feature...
Adding feline-specific music to veterinary offices as environmental enrichment could provide great value to the cat’s welfare in the clinic, to the client’s...
The terrestrial fossil record of the current geological epoch, the Anthropocene, will be unique in Earth history and will be dominated by humans, cows,...
A new study, published in the journal Animal Welfare, shows that some people are particularly good at identifying feline emotions from cats’ faces; women...
Domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) form attachments with their owners that are similar to the bonds formed by children and dogs with their caretakers,...
Smelly organic compounds from male cats are actually made not by the animals, but by bacteria living in their anal sacs, according to new research reported...
A 10-minute college-based animal visitation program providing hands-on petting of cats and dogs provides momentary stress relief, according to a study...
The cat tongue is covered in sharp, rear-facing spines called papillae, the precise function of which is a mystery. In a combined experimental and theoretical...
Toxoplasmosis, caused by the globally prevalent parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is one of the most common parasitic infections of man and other warm-blooded...
Female domestic cats are much more likely to use their right paw than males, according to a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour.
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According to the first study to count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, dogs have about 530 million cortical neurons...
According to a new analysis of modern and ancient cat DNA, today’s domestic cat is a descendant of both the Near Eastern and Egyptian populations of...
An international team of researchers has sequenced the complete genome of the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), one of the most critically endangered...
Cats understand some elements of physics and the cause-and-effect principle, says a new study led by Kyoto University researcher Saho Takagi. Combining...
The 5,500 year old cat remains found more than a decade ago in China have been identified as the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) by an international...
Adult cats (Felis silvestris catus) are typically quite autonomous, even in their social relationships, and not necessarily dependent on others to provide...
