Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Multiple domestic cat skulls unearthed from the Xitucheng archaeological site in China. - Yu Han The origins of domestic cats — ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Cats. You can’t deny they have a certain mystique. Long before we were making memes about them on the internet, ...

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 ...