The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of ...

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an ...

In Nature Communications 1 Pedro Ornelas, and colleagues from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa ... to northern Africa during the Neolithic period. Now a study in Nature presents ...

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

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

An earlier one brought wildcats from Northwest Africa to Sardinia by the 2nd century ... the considerations that cats were ubiquitous in Neolithic settlements and underscore how previous reliance ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...