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The house cat (Felis catus) slunk into China in the eighth century. But long before that, the ancient Chinese were by no means catless. Modern house cats are descendants of the African wildcat (Felis ...

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 ...