A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

Two friends gave me the gift of a lifetime: an 18-day cruise to Antarctica, the bottom of the world.

Researchers focused on DNA drawn from centuries-old cat bones and compared it to the genetic signatures of today’s domestic ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Researchers mapped the mammoth family tree by extracting dna from fossils. Also, scientists found some sessile animals living under Antarctica's ice shelf, and they're really cool. Hosted by: Hank ...

Once cats became associated with people, they were moved around the world, prized as ship cats and pest controllers. Cats ...

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

Leopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.