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Originally the Egyptian populations were credited with the early domestication of cats approximately 3,600 years ago but archaeological evidence also disputed the hypothesis in 2004. [2] In 2007, archaeologists working in Cyprus found an even older burial ground, a Neolithic site that is approximately 9,500 years old, of a child buried with a ...
There were other earlier cat-like species but Proailurus (meaning "before the cat"; also called "Leman's Dawn Cat"), which appeared about 30 million years ago, is generally considered the first "true cat". [2] Following the appearance of the dawn cat, there is little in the fossil record for 10 million years to suggest that cats would prosper.
In Australia, one study found feral cats to kill 466 million reptiles per year. More than 258 reptile species were identified as being predated by cats. [ 196 ] Cats have contributed to the extinction of the Navassa curly-tailed lizard and Chioninia coctei .
Fossil of tiny feline species smaller than house cat found in ancient cave in eastern China ... beginning 300,000 years ago. ... suggesting they were ancient hominins in the process of evolution ...
Pseudaelurus is a prehistoric cat that lived in Europe, Asia and North America in the Miocene between approximately twenty and eight million years ago. It is considered to be a paraphyletic grade ancestral to living felines and pantherines as well as the extinct machairodonts (saber-tooths), and is a successor to Proailurus.
It’s been documented in domestic cats in Europe since the 1970s, and has also been found in rodents. A similar syndrome was reported in Alabama cats 45 years ago, but the cause was obscure.
Cats that were favored pets during the Chinese Song dynasty were long-haired cats for catching rats, and cats with yellow-and-white fur called 'lion-cats', who were valued simply as cute pets. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Cats could be pampered with items bought from the market such as "cat-nests", and were often fed fish that were advertised in the market ...
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