Scientists Link Housecats to Wildcat Subspecies
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All the worldâs 600 million housecats are descended from the subspecies known as Felis silvestris lybica, scientists have concluded based on new DNA research.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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By Steve Connor  It will come as no surprise to owners of cantankerous cats or disobedient dogs, but scientists have now confirmed what pet lovers have always known: that each animal has its own distinct personality.
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The cats may glow in a lab, but don't throw away your night light.
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An ever-expanding array of high-tech gear designed to make kitties purr practically proves felines are plotting our eventual demise. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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The numbers and distribution of Britain's last surviving native wildcat is to be assessed.
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A new database of tree genes has been released by Oregon and Swedish researchers in an effort to speed up basic and commercial research.
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The world's first cloned cat just became a mother &#151; and she even did it without test tubes. Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&amp;M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&amp;M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has been taking care of her since.
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SALEM, Ore. - Was it a case of cat scratch fever? Or was Tinker, a 14-year-old brown tabby with one eye, just getting back in touch with her wildcat ancestors? Whatever the reason, after a sojourn in Oregon, Tinker is headed back to her Riverton, Wyo., home.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jamison, a 7-year-old cat with long, gray fur, ventured outside his home one day in June 2003 and didn't come back. His owner gave him up for lost and adopted another cat.
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DNA analysis of bison fossils suggests climate and environmental change, not human hunters, triggered herd declines and the extinction of mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other large mammals in Siberia and North America.
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New scientific findings show that avian influenza H5N1, or âbird fluâ, can be spread to other species such as cats. It was first reported in February that cats in Thailand were infected and three died.
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Increasing the activity of a single gene turns a mere rodent into Mighty Mouse, according to a new study. California scientists have genetically engineered an animal that has more muscle, less
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When jaguars kill cattle, ranchers retaliate. Now conservationists are trying for a truce that could save the Americasâ biggest cat.
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The promiscuous habits of female cheetahs are uncovered by scientists studying the species.
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MAN VERSUS BEAST: Overtrapping and overhunting in the early 20th century drove many species &#151; river otters, black bears and Canada geese, for example &#151; from their natural habitats.
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The decline of domesticated bees threatens North America's food supply. Some researchers believe original wild bee species could come to the rescue.