The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.

Staff from a terrestrial wildlife rescue and epidemic monitoring station in Shenzhen, Guangdong, release a leopard cat back ...

A comprehensive survey across Nagchu in the Xizang autonomous region has identified 126 individual snow leopards, ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.