Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into Chinese homes, people there were sharing their settlements with a very different ...

An intrepid team of biologists embarked on an extensive genetic survey of Chinese cats to determine the true identity of the Chinese mountain cat, an enigmatic feline that inhabits a swath of the ...

No one wants to live in a world without cats, but for a period of about 600 years, this was the sad reality for the people of ...

Analyses of genomic data suggest that the little-studied Chinese mountain cat, which has held a controversial taxonomic status, is a subspecies of wildcat and was not involved in feline domestication ...

A Chinese mountain cat photographed in a field of grass. Song Dazhao, CFCA A new genetic study involving the elusive Chinese mountain cat of the Tibetan Plateau has determined that this wild feline ...