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Researchers have found that cats spend longer sniffing a stranger's odor than their owner's odor, suggesting they can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar humans from scent alone.
Test your feline facts! Will you be a top cat or end up in the litter box?
The 466-year-old remains of an adult and a juvenile cat are the oldest known in the modern-day United States, a new study finds.
Discover the history of our feline friends, and learn about the debate over whether cats are really "domesticated" at all.
How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.
Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.
Scientists have identified some of the involved genes behind cats' spots, but there's still a piece missing.
About 40% of cats play fetch with their owners, but it's not clear why.
A new study shows that gene therapy could be an effective form of birth control for cats.
The real-life origins of a once-mythological wildcat called the "cat-fox" are finally coming to light thanks to recent genetics research.
