Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into Chinese homes, people there were sharing their settlements with a very different ...

An intrepid team of biologists embarked on an extensive genetic survey of Chinese cats to determine the true identity of the Chinese mountain cat, an enigmatic feline that inhabits a swath of the ...

GUANGZHOU, CHINA — The gray tabby cat with hazel eyes and a white nose scrunched at the bottom of a stack of metal cages filled with rabbits, quail, pigeons and ducks, across the aisle from the ...

Analyses of genomic data suggest that the little-studied Chinese mountain cat, which has held a controversial taxonomic status, is a subspecies of wildcat and was not involved in feline domestication ...

Ancient Chinese villagers may have palled around with felines, according to a new study that finds possible evidence of domesticated cats 5,300 years ago in a Yangshao village. The earliest evidence ...

A Chinese mountain cat photographed in a field of grass. Song Dazhao, CFCA A new genetic study involving the elusive Chinese mountain cat of the Tibetan Plateau has determined that this wild feline ...

Maybe he’s shocked by the camera. A Chinese cat is drawing a lot of attention online for his perpetually shocked expression in pictures. Banye, an 11-year-old British shorthair, has several ...

Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of ...