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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years AgoThe modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
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This Wall Chart Shows Every Species in the Cat Kingdom“The Chart of Cats” breaks the kingdom down by genus, highlighting the fact that the humble domesticated cat (Felis catus) shares a category with the scruffy-looking Chinese mountain cat as ...
DISTRESSING footage of a shockingly obese panther at a Chinese zoo has sparked fury among animal lovers. The video captures the moment a large black panther waddles around its enclosure, ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study findsThe researchers first sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA in the bones to determine each species ... Two black-and-white cats are visible at the center. | Credit: Zheng H, Liu Y, Chi M. (2013).
Even today, Chinese cats have more white fur than their counterparts ... involved DNA sequencing of the cat remains to determine each species. "This is by far the largest and most comprehensive ...
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