But due to a lack of data, population trends are unknown, and the species, or subspecies, could vanish before humanity realizes it. ... Wildcat experts urge pet owners to spay their house cats.

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 ...

Your hunch is correct. Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around. The sad truth is, it may not be a final decision. But don't take this feline diffidence personally. It runs in ...

Carlos Driscoll of the National Cancer Institute and his colleagues analyzed genetic material from nearly 1,000 cats, including domestic cats and the wild cat subspecies: the European wildcat ...

Scientifically, the Afro-Asiatic wildcat is divided into three evolutionarily similar subspecies. The first, F. lybica lybica, occurs in Eastern, Western and Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

There are only two ways to indisputably identify a wildcat. You can measure the size of its brain — house cats, like other domestic animals, have evolved reductions in the parts of the brain ...

Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wildcat crept into one of the villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley.

Five subspecies of the wildcat Felis silvestris are known today. All skeletons look exactly alike and are indistinguishable from that of our domestic cat. As a result, it's impossible to see with ...