Cats became human companions for the first time likely following mass cult ritual sacrifices of the furry felines in ancient ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...