"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Europe may seem an unlikely home for large wild cats, yet its forests, mountains, and islands harbor a variety of felines that have adapted to human presence. Among them is the Iberian lynx, the ...

When the director of a Hertfordshire trust was convicted of animal cruelty charges, a determined team faced a race against ...

Police have arrested two people suspected of breeding and selling exotic cats in Spain. Officers detained the pair at a ...

Related Pumas, lynx and panthers: Are big cats really roaming the British countryside? ‘Brink of extinction’: European wildcats avoided mixing with domestic cats for 2,000 years The Civil Guard said ...

The couple is suspected of raising desert lynxes and servals, a wild cat native to Africa, as well as hybrid species created ...

Police suspect the animals were brought into the European Union via Poland ... one of the world’s most rare and elusive cats, ...

A female Eurasian lynx named Lillith has managed to slip away from her enclosure at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom in Ceredigion, ...

“It has become clear once again that European security is unthinkable without Turkey. Turkey is ready to take responsibility for European security in the future as well,” he said in an opening ...