While rare, bird flu has infected over 140 cats since 2022, according to government data. Here's how to protect your pets.

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Concrete also provides a perfect place for cats to mark their territory, Losos added. Cats have scent glands, located all around their faces and bodies, that release pheromones. These pheromones are ...

The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae — the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars. It is also the only member of that family that has been ...

Domesticated cats then moved into Europe with greater intensity during periods of Greek and Roman dominance. However, the authors caution that genetic data from mummified cat remains in Egypt has ...

Today's domesticated cat is its own species, known as Felis catus. And we can trace its origins to a species of wild cats called Felis silvestris, which is made up of five different subspecies.

To get the cat DNA, Lyons and her colleagues swabbed the cheeks of cats and analyzed donated blood and gonad samples from neuter clinics, including four African wildcats and 10 hybrids of domestic ...

When you need serious cuddles, there isn't much that can beat a bundle of purring, furry floof, and that goes double for a supersized bundle of purring, furry floof, like these 10 biggest cat breeds.

Even though Altair now holds the record for the longest tail on a living domestic cat, Cygnus remains the champion, living or dead, with his tail having measured 17.58 inches.

Write the researchers: Here we report a preliminary annotation of the whole genome sequence of Cinnamon, a domestic cat living in Columbia (MO, USA), bisulfite sequencing of Boris, a male cat from ...

July 1, 2007 All domestic cats are descended from at least five common ancestors from the Near East, Oxford University scientists and their collaborators have discovered. The new research ...

The Maine Coon is considered one of the largest domestic cat breeds, according to Purina. On average, the felines weigh between 10.6 to 18 pounds , and in some cases, they may scale up to 20 ...