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San Francisco-based pharmaceutical company OKAVA is investigating an implant that slowly releases a GLP-1 medication for up ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

A brazen group of feline thieves smashed their truck into a South LA barbershop, breaking in and making off with the owner’s beloved $2,000 Savannah cat. Three masked men rammed their pickup truck ...

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Jerusalem Post / Science Ancient DNA upends long-held story of cat domestication New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived ...

Leopard cats lived near humans in China over 5,000 years before domestic cats arrived 22 small cat bones from Chinese archaeological sites revealed early leopard cat presence Leopard cats helped ...

Whether they are Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon or domestic shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. However, despite cats’ popularity as pets, the history ...

The enduring enigma surrounding the precise origins of cat domestication has finally begun to yield its secrets, thanks to a groundbreaking new genome study. Despite their global ubiquity as household ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat domestication and dispersal into Europe and beyond, aside from the common ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...