Most cat owners joke that their felines rule over their homes like royalty, but these asides could hold some truth. Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Domesticated cats may have arrived in the West much later than previously thought, according to new research published on Thursday ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Nile didn’t just keep cats as pets—they revered them as divine sentinels. At the heart of this devotion stood Bastet, the "Goddess of the Ointment Jar" ...

Many pet owners may treat their cats as royalty, but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols of divinity. To honor this history, the Shanghai Museum in China has ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Domesticated cats may have arrived in the West much later than previously thought, according to new research published on Thursday. Cats began their relationship with humans quite early, with evidence ...

Sheba pet food is searching for a domestic cat in the U.S. with links to the feline nobility of ancient Egypt Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...