Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals. This new research — hailed as a "knockout study" — ...

Humans were living alongside leopard cats in settlements in ancient China more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived, new research shows. The findings reveal that people in the region had an ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to 168 B.C. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat. | Credit: ...